Living by Design

Genesis 7:1-16

This thought came into my mind while reading verse one, it matters little what others think about me in this generation, a generation not that different from Noah’s generation.  It does matter totally how God sees me, He is not fooled by my performance, but He looks at my heart. 

On the very day that Noah and his family obeyed God and went into the ark we have this account; “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.  And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.” (Genesis 7:11-12)  I believe, often in the life of a believer in Jesus Christ, God has an “Ark” experience setup for you.  God does this so that your faith will be increased; God already knows what you will do in your “Ark” and often it is the only way you will know that you can trust God in those dark and stormy days and nights.  Remember it was God who shut Noah and his family in the ark.

It matters not what you are building, it may be a plane, a boat, a family, a business, a life, you need a design and that design must have a designer who understands the stresses that the design will encounter.  Verse 18, tells of the success of God’s design; “the waters increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.”

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice