Daily Devotion for May 11, 2006

The Road of Faith

 

Then God said to Noah, "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you--the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground-so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it.” So Noah came out... Genesis 8:15-18

 

It must have been so hard to wait upon God’s command to come out of that ark. After being in that ark for a year, cooped up with family, surrounded by the dampness and wall-to-wall animals and birds. You can't help but wonder what was going through Noah’s mind. "Lord you delivered me from the flood for this?" That would be normal but I think Noah was a man focused on God. Instead of where he was at he saw what God had delivered him from. Instead of his circumstances he could trust where God was taking him.

 

 When Noah came out he must have been filled with great promise and gratitude because the first thing he did was build an altar to God. He didn't wait until Sunday; he didn't wait until after he ran barefoot across the grass, he didn't wait until he could get some time away for himself. In gratitude, love and acknowledgement that God was Lord of his life he thought of God first.

 

 Thinking of Noah, I have to ask myself -  Am I am trying to build God an altar each day as I seek his ways? Am I am trying to please him the best I can and am I talking to him constantly? Am I praying that the aroma from my life each day gets a little sweeter than the day before to God? Noah was not without his faults and I am not without many of my own but it's wonderful to come to Jesus daily and be able to trust him totally knowing he is with me when I'm good and yes he's even still with me when I'm not quite there.

 

Prayer
Dear Jesus I don't know what you have in store for me tomorrow but today help me to please you. You alone are whom I want to follow. Please Jesus forgive me when I get a bit frightened by the future, help me come back to where I stand on your promises and know I can trust you completely. Today my sanity is found in you alone. Today I admit that I can't control my life and I give it up to you. Amen.

 

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