But without faith no one can please God. We must believe that God is real and rewards everyone who searches for him.
Because Noah had faith, he was warned about something that had not yet happened. He obeyed and built a boat that saved him and his family. In this way the people of the world were judged, and Noah was given the blessings that come to everyone who pleases God.
Hebrews 11:6-7
Is God pleased with your life? First of all, for God to be pleased with your life, you must have faith in Him. Of course, that means that you trust God in every situation. You must trust Him when times are bad, and you must trust God when everything is going well! It is often harder to trust God in good times than when things are going wrong.
If you have faith and please God then He will give you the same blessings that He gave Noah. How did God bless Noah and how can those blessings be available to me as well?
Because God was pleased with Noah's life He warned Noah about the Flood that was coming and He told Noah how to be saved from it!
If your life pleases God, He will also warn you about things that have not yet happened. And He will tell you how to build an ark so that you might be saved. Does this mean that you will not suffer here on this earth? Of course not. Noah's life was certainly blessed by God, but was also filled with adversity and suffering as he struggled to obey God.
Noah's blessing was that he would not be destroyed with the rest of the world and that through Noah all men yet to be born would be given the opportunity to live! Noah's pleasing life to God was and is a continued blessing to every man who is alive today!
Make it your goal today that your life will please God! Determine to be the "Noah" of your generation! Be faithful to God even if no one else is!
"Lord Jesus, I want to please You by the way I live. Give me the grace every day to remind You of Your servant Noah! And may You be praised forever. Amen."
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