Observation - The world is completely corrupt and full of evil behavior. God had created men to be in fellowship with Him and love Him. To spend time with God. Men simply wanted everything their flesh told them they needed. They were motivated by greed and self indulgence, motivated to get and never to give, motivated to have everything they wanted to satisfy the flesh and the desire of their body. At their most corrupt, when God is regretting his creation, their is grace. The bible says Noah found grace in the eyes of The Lord. When you think there is no hope for humanity there is always grace. God looks at Noah and finds a ray of sunshine in an otherwise very dark place. A man that walk in righteousness and follows after God. He finds grace with God and is charged with humanities salvation. To build, to lead and to release. That is Noah's task. To build the ark, to lead the people and the creatures and to release them back to the earth to bless God.
Application - The picture that was painted of Noahs' time can probably be overlaid on to any time in the history of man. Some could say that we are living in the same kind of time now. That the corruption of men has caused evil to rise and the world to be a very dark place. Those people would probably be right. We are living in some fairly selfish times and with some fairly significant corruption. But there is always grace. I don't mean that to say that all is forgiven because there is grace. I mean that to say that there is always hope because there is grace. In the midst of some significantly challenging times for humanity God found Noah full of righteousness and love for God. Today God is finding men and women that are full of righteousness and love for God and will challenge them to build, lead and release. God needs men and women that can build an ark, gather the people and release them into the kingdom. God is looking for Noah's in our day, Noah's that will build. Build the lives of people, build hope for a new day, build love into the fabric of humanity, build Godly principles into the lives of people. Leaders that will take the risk and stand against the common worldly viewpoint and be heard. Release disciples back into the kingdom to build, lead and release.
Prayer - Father help me to be one that you look upon with eyes of grace. Help me to be one that you can rely on to build, lead and release. Father I love you so much and want to be part of the change and not part of the problem. Father instruct me in Jesus name.
