God's Covenant Promised to Noah (Gen. 6:18)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 03/22/2006

My Worship Time                                          Focus:  God’s covenant promised to Noah

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference:  Genesis 6:18

            Message of the verse:  “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.”

“18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.”

           

            It seems that God came to Noah and spoke to him the words that are in verses 13-17 and then Noah would have told the rest of his family what it was God who had told him, to build the ark and then to gather all of the animals.  Noah was 500 years old when he began to have children so his children would have been very young when Noah received the revelation from God so this was surely a family project and when his sons were old enough to marry then they would have had more help on this task.

           

            God tells Noah in verse eighteen that He would establish His covenant with Noah and his family and this covenant would not be told to him for a hundred years, as they would be out of the ark after the great flood when God would explain His covenant to them.  This is the very first time that the word covenant is used in the Bible and there would be others that would follow.  There were times when God would make a covenant that He alone would fulfill, and at other times that He would make a conditional covenant with His people and if they did not fulfill there end of it then they would receive the consequences of the covenant.  This covenant with Noah was an unconditional covenant, and God would fulfill all that was in it.  God would make a covenant with Abraham and He would make covenants with the nation of Israel, he also made an unconditional covenant with David promising him that his throne would be an everlasting throne and this was fulfilled through Jesus Christ some two thousand years after that covenant.  The Bible, could be said to be made up of two covenants, the Old and the New.  In Jeremiah’s book God spoke of a new covenant He would make with His people, Israel as seen in the 31^st chapter of Jeremiah.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  God has made different covenants with His people throughout all of the Scriptures and it is a sure thing that He will fulfill all of these covenants even though at times it looked as if, (humanly speaking), God would have a problem doing so. 

The Word of God was refreshing to my heart as I read it this morning.

My Steps of Faith Today:  Trust the Lord to direct my paths today and to continue to teach me contentment.  To continue to trust the Lord with all of the decisions that need to be made concerning life.  God is faithful!