Today Our Daily Bread Genesis 6

~Lena's Journalin' in red~
Matthew 24:37 "When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah's day. I don’t always think of the literal return of the Lord when we speak of His coming. I often think of it as His appearing inside of my understanding and fellowship, the restoration of the communication with mankind, with me or you specifically. I see chaos and evil, and then the Lord comes "to the rescue" in His return to abiding in us. I’m not saying that is the only form of "return", but I believe it is more that way than possibly a literal man we see.
Luke 12:25 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? Of course not! Who wants to live in moments only? We have survived from moment to moment, experience to experience, high to low to high again. The Lord wants to dwell in us, in our thoughts, in our activities, everyday all of the time.
Genesis 6: 1 - 22
1 When the human population began to grow rapidly on the earth, 2 the sons of God saw the beautiful women of the human race and took any they wanted as their wives.
3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, they will live no more than 120 years."
4 In those days, and even afterward, giants lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with human women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes mentioned in legends of old. 5 Now the LORD observed the extent of the people's wickedness, and he saw that all their thoughts were consistently and totally evil.
6 So the LORD was sorry he had ever made them. It broke his heart. 7 And the LORD said, "I will completely wipe out this human race that I have created. Yes, and I will destroy all the animals and birds, too. I am sorry I ever made them."
8 But Noah found favor with the LORD. 9 This is the history of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless man living on earth at the time. He consistently followed God's will and enjoyed a close relationship with him. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 Now the earth had become corrupt in God's sight, and it was filled with violence. 12 God observed all this corruption in the world, and he saw violence and depravity everywhere.
13 So God said to Noah, "I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Yes, I will wipe them all from the face of the earth! 14 "Make a boat F25 from resinous wood and seal it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior. 15 Make it 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. F26 16 Construct an opening all the way around the boat, 18 inches F27 below the roof. Then put three decks inside the boat – bottom, middle, and upper – and put a door in the side. 17 "Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing. Everything on earth will die! 18 But I solemnly swear to keep you safe in the boat, with your wife and your sons and their wives. 19 Bring a pair of every kind of animal – a male and a female – into the boat with you to keep them alive during the flood. 20 Pairs of each kind of bird and each kind of animal, large and small alike, will come to you to be kept alive. 21 And remember, take enough food for your family and for all the animals."
22 So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.
Note it says the sons of God, chosen peoples of God, saw with natural eyes, when they were created to see much deeper than skin deep, they took any they wanted, in comparison to having to hold, those whom God had ordained. This grieves God our Father and shows Him He really is not honored as Father in our lives, because He’s established rule and we rebel against it because of the temporal desire of the flesh rather than the spirit nature. Mere humans, when God created us as spirit beings? This curse is not a hopeless destiny that cannot be changed, it just incinuates that when we choose to live as mere humans in accordance to our flesh nature we will die that way, and early, but when we live according to the spirit we will enjoy long abundant life. Disobedient men brought Giants to the earth. We’ve spoken of Giants as being anything that is too big for us to come up against on our own. Most Giants we create by disobedience and not seeing ahead to the consequence of our choices.
Example: A child decides to drive a car that he’s never learned to drive. He wrecks the car and now has the giant of liability to deal with, but he is not able to deal with it because he doesn’t have any money at all and doesn’t even have a job, he’s 11 years old!
Intimacy is anything we join ourselves to, commit ourselves to, become entangled with, love, spend time on and give ourselves over to. How many of us have done that very thing with things that God opposes? When we entangle our lives with other things that God has even said would hurt us, but we do it anyway, we’ve set ourselves up to have a giant to deal with later on. One very hard thing is the more we do not see this yet continue to participate in and with it, the more that giant grows up and we now have something to deal with that we have no earthly idea where it came from or how it got so enormous. This is the result of non- awareness to sin, non- awareness to righteousness. Why do you think the scripture says, "Awake, O sleeper get up!?" This is a real problem when one man sleeps to righteousness, when one man chooses to intertwine himself with fleshly living and ideas, but it is a whole ‘nother thing when a fellowship or an assembly of people choose the same pathway, families choose the same pathway, generations choose the same pathway to death, to creating more and more giants. Someone has to change this effect on the earth! Someone like Noah, families like Noah, assemblies like Noah, generations like Noah….These are who will rise up with God and change the known world and it begins with one man- me. One man who is willing to obey God and build something no one has ever seen, a boat, for something he’s not seen, rain.