Good morning all. God is good all the time, all the time God is good. TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!!!!
Okay, yesterday I wrote and studied about people who are lovers of self, prideful, selfish, and moving life in the wrong direction. WELL, what about the people who are in God's fold, following God, and being obedient? They are protected and God will bring them out of the situation.
Genesis 6 God saw evil in man and his heart was sicken leading HIM to regret ever creating man. God decided to destroy all living things via a flood. HOWEVER, one (1) man found favor in God's eyes and his name was Noah. Oh, as a side note, people had lived long long lives up to this point, and God said in Genesis 6: ; verse 3b yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.” So man will not live past 120 years.
Okay, back to Noah, God told him to build an ark, gave him the dimensions and said to take his wife, his 3 sons and their wives, and verses 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive. Noah, his family, and creatures God told him to gather were spared from the flood. NOAH WAS OBEDIENT TO GOD, FOUND FAVOR, AND WAS SPARED. Lesson here is to listen to God, be obedient, and to remember God is in control. Also, the "RAINBOW" was created by GOD as a promise, not for the current rainbow symbol used today. Is this a slap in God's face by non-believers? Hmmm?
Genesis 19 - Lot and his family. Sodom and Gomorrah had become the "rainbow" coalition of old, if you will. (not of God's promise, but of sinful nature) They were evil, cruel, and vicious people. Lot was sitting at the gate when two men (angels) arrived and he took them to his house. Why? The men said they would stay on the square, but Lot knew they would be abused and took them to his home.
Men came, young and old, and wanted to have the men to do with as they pleased in anyway they chose. Lot said no, was drug back into his house by the angels and the men outside were blinded (by the angels) so as not able to find the door of Lots house.
Through Abraham, his obedience to God, his discussion with God, Lot and his family would be saved. Lot and his family, and it seems more so his wife, enjoyed the "worldly things" of Sodom. The angels told them to leave and not look back. SIDE BAR: This is what we are to do when we accept Jesus Christ, move forward, but don't look back at the past, the past is forgiven once we accept Jesus as our savior. As they were fleeing to Zoar (means small town) Lots wife turned to look back and turned to a pillar of salt. Why would she look back? Possibly not wanting to let go of what she had? Maybe, however, in her disobedience she is no longer.
So, Johnny, what are you trying to say today? I am saying we need to listen to God, heed his calling or warnings, and move in the direction GOD wants us to go to spread the word and bring glory to HIM. But most of all, be obedient and know that GOD will take care of you in the worst of worst times and the best of best times. HE IS ALWAYS WITH YOU! Thanks for reading. Love y'all.
In Christ's Love and Grace
Johnny
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