Daily Devotions

Gen 6:9-22 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
KJV
A longer reading this morning but an important lesson to be seen as well. Noah was giving a seemingly impossible task to do by God. Build an ark, a ship that is as big as modern day ocean liners, then gather all the animals of the world two by two, even the creeping things, food for all the animals and take them into that ark because God was going to destroy the earth by a great flood. It had never rained, there had never been a flood, but this is what God told Noah to do. I want to point out the absences of something in this passage this morning. There are no questions from Noah, not one, Noah just did what God commanded. Consider what Noah never asked. Noah never asked, why? Noah never asked, why me? Noah never asked, how? Noah just did. What if all of God’s children responded to God’s commands in such a way? How much confusion and disobedience would that eliminate if all of God’s children would just do instead of questioning why? How much would that save man if he would just obey. There are others who did serve God but stopped to ask the questions Noah did not and they were used and blessed by God. But we also see them frustrate God along the way. Moses asked why, why me, and how, and God still used him, but you do see how that great man of God frustrated the Lord as well. Wouldn’t it be better if we just did and never questioned God?

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