Our water weary family has been checking the window for months. “Is it time yet?” No. Wait for it… All in God’s perfect time. My favorite line in our reading is this: “But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark” (verse 1). He didn’t […]
It has been decades in the making and preparations. Now it’s time to load the ark with the animals, provisions and people. Noah had undertaken this task from God not knowing on what day the rain would come. He didn’t know if he should be rushing trying to finish this task or leisurely taking his […]
God has had enough. Man had made a mess of His creation. Only one man in his generation is following God. It’s time to wipe away the mess and start again. Noah gets his instructions straight from God. “Noah walked with God” (verse 9b). From this verse it also looks like my question of “were […]
Today we come to the hard truth of our existence. We ALL fall to temptation. We want what we aren’t supposed to have and it ends in heartbreak. I will assure you right now that I too would have succumb to the temptation that Eve fell to that day in the garden. You would have […]
Paul implores his audience to listen to Jesus’ call. Everything He did He did it for each one of us. And He did it for His Father. When thinking about our reading today I got a picture of a burning building. I am trapped in the top of this building with no way out. The […]