Corona Devo 3344

Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.  ~Genesis 6:20

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...will come to you...  ~Genesis 6:20

The Bible (God's Word) doesn't say that Noah traveled to Australia for kangaroos, and to China for pandas.

God told Noah His plans, and God was clear about Noah's role and responsibility in them: 

So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. (15) This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. (16) Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around.  Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.  ~Genesis 6:14-16

Noah's job was to make an ark, and God told him exactly how---down to the cubit measurements (300x50x30) and where the door should be (in the side of the ark). 

And Noah obeyed.  He did what God told him to do, and (Guess what?!): God did the rest.

Noah built the ark with space for the animals, but God did the work of bringing the animals to the ark.  

Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.  ~Genesis 6:20

Noah didn't have to go to the Amazon for a boa constrictor (included within: every kind of creature that moves along the ground).  Noah just had to obey his role in God's plan.  And (Guess what?!) God did the rest.

We serve a holy and pure and just God.  He loves us so much that HE DID THE WORK by sending His son Jesus to the cross to die for our sins.  (But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.  ~Isaiah 53:5)

God and His Son have done the work, however--once we ask the Lord into our heart and life we have to keep our end of the belief-bargain too.

Faith in God has never been a passive role.  Following God has always been an active-decision and life-response.

The miraculous thing is that God will do the miraculous stuff--if we will be obedient and dutiful to Him and His calling on our lives.

If we will "build the ark" when He tells us too...then God will "bring the animals to fill it" (if you will).  

Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.  ~Genesis 6:20

Be obedient to what God is telling us to do today.  And (Guess what?!)--He will do the rest.

Sometimes the Lord has an "ark"-idea or call on our mind and heart and we know what He wants us to do.  The question is:  Will we do it?

But sometimes--and most of the days/times of our lives, we may not have a singular-call to action, but (rather) an overarching faith-umbrella of active-obedience that we are to daily fall-in-step with.

God first.

  • Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.  ~Mark 12:30 
  • “You shall have no other gods before me.  ~Exodus 20:3

Share the Lord your God---with our families:  

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. (6) These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. (7) Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (8) Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. (9) Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates... 

(13) Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. (14) Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; (15) for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God...  ~Deuteronomy 6:5-9, 13-15

Share the Lord your God---with others.  

  • Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (20) and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”  ~Matthew 28:19-20  
  • “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”  ~Matthew 4:19 
  • He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.  ~Mark 16:15

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What is our faith-job this week...today?

If God has given us an assignment...let's get active in obeying, because if we will obey God in our area of responsibility, (Guess what?!): God will do the rest.

In truth, He is often waiting on us.  
The most difficult pieces of the puzzle will come to you (because God will do it) once we fulfill what we have been called to do. 

Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.  ~Genesis 6:20

Noah built the ark with space for the animals, but God did the work of bringing the animals to the ark.  

Building the (huge) ark would have been a huge job.  But gathering (with our own power and means) two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground...IMPOSSIBLE!

But Noah didn't have to gather the animals: they came to him.  

We don't have to do the impossible today either...and God is not asking us to.
We can leave that part to the Lord.  

All that we need to be is obedient to God's call in our faith, and (Guess what?!): He will do the rest.  

This is the account of Noah and his family. 
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God... 
(22) Noah did everything just as God commanded him.  ~Genesis 6:1, 22


Blessings,

sarah 

https://sarahsundy04.blogspot.com 

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