Daily Devotions – Noah – very old man called to build an ark to start humanity over.

Daily Devotions – Noah – very old man called to build an ark to start humanity over.

 

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Genesis 7:6-16 (NIV)
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. 14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

 

Choose one or two key verses from the Scripture reading in Genesis today and do at least one of the following for your chosen verse(s).
A –  Ask questions of the text (Who, what, why, where, when)
– Emphasize certain words as you read the text over & over
I  –  In your own words (paraphrase one or more verses)
O  – Other verses in the Bible that say the same or opposite
U  – Use it; apply the truth from the text in your life

 

Compassionate Lord, You call ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Help me to be faithful and focused on You and Your Word so that I can hear Your voice when You ask me to serve you. Strengthen me to not question my abilities, but to submit my trust in You. I realize that I don’t need to do something as amazing as building an ark or saving the world. Let me not underestimate Your power as You use daily acts of obedience, kindness, and love for Your Good. Amen