God's Amazing Grace

03/18/2006

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                  Focus:  God’s Amazing Grace

Bible Reading & Meditation             Reference:  Genesis 6:8

            Message of the verse:  “8 ¶ But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.”

“8 ¶ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.”

            There are two verse eights here, one from the NAS95, and the other from the KJV, and the only difference is one uses favor and the other uses grace in it.  Grace and favor are very similar words when used in the Scriptures, but the point of all of this is that Noah was a believer in the Lord because his heart was changed from the inside and he trusted the Lord to forgive his sins, because he knew that he was a sinner.  Believers in the OT are saved because they knew they were born sinners and they put their trust in the Lord to provide salvation for them, and this was done when the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross and paid the penalty for their sins as well as any others who trusted Him for salvation. 

            In verse seven it says that God was sorry, or other translations say that God was grieved that he had made man.  Verse seven shows the emotions that God has, and as people made in His image we too have emotions.  God still had His plan, and nothing, including Satan would stop God plan to send His Messiah into the world and so God would judge the world by flooding it entirely and everything that breathed through its lungs would die with the exception of what was on the ark, which included Noah and his family, eight in total.

            Verse eight is a powerful statement and I believe it is true of everyone who has been saved by God’s wonderful, amazing grace.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  This verse makes me think back at the events that surrounded my salvation that was given to me in January of 1974, and it has changed my life completely, for it was on that day that I too found grace, or favor in the eyes of the Lord.

The Word of God has given refreshment to my heart as I read and studied it this morning.

My Steps of Faith Today:  Continue to trust the Lord concerning the things that transpired in Canada yesterday, to trust the Lord to direct my path, and to trust the Lord to continue to teach me contentment.