UV 3450/10000 Lifeboats to Meet the Rising Tide
The Lord saw that the wickedness (depravity) of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination or intent of the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually.
Genesis 6 v 5
The serpent leader works on the hearts and minds of people to turn them to wickedness or depravity. They were not evil just occasionally but continually. In contrast, the Servant Leader Jesus disciples and teaches us to continually living in reverence and obedience to the Lord. Even out of that wicked generation, Noah found favour with the Lord. Likewise, even in today’s equally wicked and depraved world where everyone follows their own illusions, desires, whims, evil intentions and imagination, those who follow the Servant Leader find favour with the Lord.
The cure for depravity to which our hearts are naturally inclined is to live like Noah in habitual fellowship with the Spirit of God. The Lord will then inspire and instruct us to build an ark of salvation with our whole lives. The planks with which we build our life arks are faith, gratitude, forgiveness, love, graciousness, generousity and hope. The people we in turn inspire and touch or influence to be like the Servant Leader will be saved along with us like Noah’s family was saved along with him from the great flood. The Lord will save us from the waters of destruction.
Noah followed the instructions of the Lord accurately in building the ark. Likeswise, we need to be diligent in studying the word of God and build our lives in accordance with it. Noah used pitch or bitumen to seal both the inside and outside of the ark to make it leak proof. Likewise, in order to prevent any leaks in our lives from the outer world to our inner being and from our inner being to the outer world, we need to be sealed by the Holy Spirit and apply the word both inside us and outside us. We need to build our lifeboats to meet the rising tide.
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