Corona Devo 154

It's been a while now that we have been surrounded by the Corona waters.  

Bobbing up and down in the daily media and health reports has made me a bit sea-sick, and in case you are didn't know: the kids are still home.  

I had to laugh when I read and related to Noah this morning:  But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. Genesis 8:1 

Unlike Noah, we have not been floating in an ark with only our immediate family and a bunch of wild and domesticated animals for months on end, with no visible land in sight...

Wait a minute...or have we?

Just think about Noah's situation and see if it could relate to our Corona-quarantine environment?  

Don't tell me that the Lord doesn't see our situations and our hearts and encourage us through His Word.  When I read about Noah and the ark it brought hope to me (and a smile) and I felt comforted when I was reminded that God remembered Noah.  God remembers us too.  He sees the Corona same-old/same-old that we are all tired of.  God knows that we are up-to-our-necks in the billowing waves of Corona news/sickness/predictions and overall no-end-in-sight.  It's enough to make your stomach turn.

But again, God sees us and our wild animals.  He is with us as we float along on the Corona sea and He knows that for some of us, the "wild animals" are our kids: starving for something to do, and a routine to do it in.  For some of us, the "wild animals" are our feelings and emotions: raging about masks, risks of infection, government power, or the lack-of-control that we have over any of it.  But God remembered (your name here) and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. Genesis 8:1 

In this chapter of scripture, first God remembers Noah (His people/his followers/ His children).  Of course he never forgot Noah--He Himself had commissioned him to build the ark and take his family and the animal pairs on it. 

God has purpose in our obedience to Him (for Noah it was building an ark when the rest of the world thought he was crazy for doing so).  Noah's obedience preserved his and his family's lives.  Our obedience to God/His Word/His call on our lives can do the same.  Noah didn't know or understand what was coming, and how can we?  But Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God (Genesis 6:9).   Noah followed God, and obeyed God's instructions.

Still---does Noah's story relate to ours?  Am I searching and possibly reaching for words of hope and healing in this Bible story?  You better believe it!  

These are only my humble thoughts and parallels that I felt (in wistful hope) when reading about Noah and the flood, and thinking about us and the Corona waters.  The next verses speak of the flood waters receding.  Can that be true for us with the flood waters of Corona?   A girl can dream, can't she?  A Nation and a World can dream.  And we can pray that it would be so.

He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede. 2 The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped. 3 So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth.   ~Genesis 8:1-3

Even if it's a whim, I am claiming these verses for us today!  Please, Lord, let the Corona floodwaters begin to recede!  Both the "underground waters" of fear, slanted-media and loudly proclaimed mis-information, and also the "torrential rains" of anxiety, suspiciousness of both neighbor and stranger, and true infection.  Stop all of it from flowing, Lord.

We understand that it will not happen overnight, but we pray earnestly that it will start happening.  So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth.  (Genesis 8:3).  Whether that is a physical change: in health/ or a truth change: in reporting the true facts/ or an emotional change: where trust (in the Lord) overcomes fear/ or a spiritual change: where we lay it all down at Your feet, Lord: in all of these ways--we pray for change to begin.  

We understand that change happens gradually, please Lord, bring the change.  

Just as God "remembered" Noah and his unique, isolated, extended experience floating in the ark; God remembers us and our unique, isolated, extended experience of floating (some of us with wild animals) on the waves of Corona. 

Lord, we trust in You today, and pray that You would send "a wind to blow across the earth, and the (Corona) floodwaters (would) began to recede.

Blessings,

sarah

https://sarahsundy04.blogspot.com


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