Today you should read: Genesis 7:1-24
Today’s reading is a story of God’s love and God’s justice. The God we serve is a perfect balance of both. As we read yesterday, the world had become so wicked that God had to act. His justice demanded it. Most of us would have simply annihilated humanity – but God loved us – His creation, and constructed a plan that would preserve the life He had made a few chapters earlier.
God looked for someone who was righteous – someone He could bless. He found Noah to be righteous in his generation (v.1). In other words, Noah lived right among a people that practiced the most heinous of wrong. It’s not easy to live right among wickedness. Many of us are faced with that every day of our lives at school, work, – or even at home. God looks for people He can bless – people who will obey Him (v.5) even when it’s not popular.
Micah 6:8 says it well, “o man, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
Ask God today to make you a man or woman that He can bless – one that follows God and seeks Him with all your heart. God is looking for “Noahs” today, too – to use to rock the world for His glory!
Questions to Ponder…
• In what ways do I practice righteousness amidst the wickedness around me?
• In what ways have I been compromising?
• What would it look like for me to practice Micah 6:8 today – to humbly walk with God?
Posted by: Tim Parsons