SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 03/24/2006
My Worship Time Focus: Entering the ark
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference:
Genesis 7:1-10
Message of the verse: “1 Then the LORD said to Noah, ‘Enter the
ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this
time. 2
‘You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his
female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;
3 also of the birds of the sky, by
sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the
earth. 4
‘For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and
forty nights; and I will blot
out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."
5 Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him. 6 Now
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the
earth. 7
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered
the ark because of the water of the flood.
8 Of clean animals and animals
that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground, 9 there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male
and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10
It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came
upon the earth.”
This section of Genesis give the
account of Noah and his family entering the ark that God had told him to
build. One of the lessons that can be
learned from this story of Noah is that God gave him the ability to understand
and carry out the building of the ark, for this was the job that God gave him
to do. God will give the ability to
complete the task that He has given a believer to do, to succeed in a job that
God has chosen for a person to work at or a task for a certain ministry that
God wants the person to work on God will give special ability to achieve the
things He wants His people to do.
The first four verses of this
section are God telling Noah and his family to enter into the ark with all of
the animals that were to go into it and in verse five we see the faithfulness
of Noah with the words, “Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded
him.” The last five verses tell of the
animals that were on the ark, the fact that some of them were clean and some
were unclean animals. God must have told
Noah about the difference between the clean and unclean animals as He told
Moses when Moses wrote the Law.
I have seen pictures of what men
supposed happened after the rain began where people were actually trying to get
into the ark, but what is stated here is that the vapor beerier that was above
the earth and all the water that was under the earth came forth and so it seems
to me that people would have died in an instant. Another thing that is believed to have
happened is that the earth tilted on its axis and one of the ways that we can
see the results of this comes from Antarctic where the large elephants have
been detected in the ice with actual food in their mouths showing that all of
this happened very fast. Before the flood
the entire earth was tropical as tropical fossils have been found all over the
earth including the polar regions of the world.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The things that stick out in my mind as I
read this section is the faithfulness of God and also the obedience of Noah, as
can be seen in verse five. I can also
see the abilities and gifts that God gave to Noah to complete this task and as
said above I believe that God will give me the gifts and abilities to
accomplish the words that He has planned for me to do.
The Word of God has been refreshing to my heart as I read it
this morning.
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