God Feels

3 June

Was meditating on Gen 6:1-9 about Noah.. In verse 5, although God saw how great men’s wickedness on the earth had become and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.. we see that He is a God who FEELS… The Lord was grieved that He had made men on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. Do we really know what God feels when we sin? I am sure God was saddened because He created men in his likeness and image. We were supposed to reflect Him and His glory but have fallen short of the standard of God because of our sin.

Although God is a God of mercy and grace, yet He can bring judgment and wrath because He is a God of Love – He loves us too much to see sin perpetuating into future generations and sends the flood. How then can be stand up in a time like this, when sin and wickedness are all around us, to be like Noah?

In the midst of sin and wickedness, Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time and he walked with God – God established his covenant with Noah. He did everything just as God had commanded him to. I want to be like Noah!

In preparation for the 100K blessing campaign, can we be like Noah to share the love of Christ with others and bring them into ‘our ark’ – our ark of protection, love, security and hope in Jesus Christ? The time is NOW – especially when we see the signs of the time. We want to build our lives on Jesus who is our firm foundation and then build the lives of others upon this same ROCK.