This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.
As I read through the story of the flood again, I was amazed at the extent of the people of this day. One of the things God says through Moses is “The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
Who knows what this looked like. How far away are we from this? It’s hard to believe a place where this is actually the case. It sounds like a very dark and scary place to be. But one begs the question, how did Noah end up righteous?
Here is what it says about Noah: “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.”
How, in a generation that was so evil, was one who was so close to God. Surely it had to be his parents raising him right? but then looking at Noah’s genealogy, his great grandfather Methuselah was alive until the year of the flood. God didn’t call him blameless in his generation.
In any case, it completely blows any excuse out of the water for us to blame our fault and wrongdoings on those around us. If Noah was a man in a generation when all man thought of was evil and yet he still found favor with the Lord, that is something that we can do also. It matters not what our circumstances are if we can rely on Christ and Christ alone.