For this week, read Chapters 5-11. Spend time in prayer and silence with God asking him to meet you and speak to you.
Bible Reading
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. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. 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. I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark-you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 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. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
– Genesis 6:9-22
Devotion
God had a big project! I’m not talking about building a big boat – one that’s a football field and a half long. The project was to save the human race. Building a boat was only part of the project. The most important part of the project was that God needed a man of integrity, someone who walked with Him, to do the job. When you read Genesis, there’s really no question as to whether or not Noah will build the ark, because from the beginning God addresses the character of His man, Noah.
Sometimes I think that if God would give me a great big project to do for Him, then I’d jump in and do it. The truth is that the decisions I make today determine whether or not I’d even be ready. Ask God to help you today to walk with Him – even in the little things.
The Big Question
What kind of job do you think God would give you? How are you walking with Him today so that you’re ready when God’s looking for His person?