Seize the Moment – Day 385
One Person Does Make a Difference!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, April 6.
The beautiful thing about reading through the Old Testament together is that we find the classic Sunday School lessons. Sorry no flannel graph. Today, we start one of the most famous Bible stories: The flood and Noah’s ark found in Genesis 6 – 10.
Can one person truly make a difference in today’s world?
The story of the world-wide flood and Noah’s ark is the story of the second rebellion of humanity against God’s rightful rule. As usual, God’s response to our sin is found in a person. This template of response is ultimately fulfilled thousands of years later in Jesus Christ!
Genesis 6:7-8 gives God’s response to man’s universal rebellion against Him: “The Lord said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.’ But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.”
All have rebelled, but one! How would this one person named Noah respond to God’s covenant to choose him and use him to rescue all of humanity and all of God’s living creatures? Genesis 6:22 explains Noah’s response: “Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.”
In the New Testament, written thousands of years later, Noah is remembered this way. Listen to Hebrews 11:7, “By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”
Seize the moment and live by faith and like Noah you will make a difference in your generation. God always has used just one person to make a difference in the world.
Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from John 11:25-26, when Jesus proclaims, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”