It’s hard to imagine, but every kind of creature was confined in
that Ark with Noah and his household. No matter how delicate
or how fierce, lions and sheep, doves and ravens all bunked
under one roof with the chosen family.
Every accommodation had to be accounted for including food
consumption, waste disposal, and time spent enduring all this,
yet I wonder about the sounds. I imagine the animals and their
host family were more often silent than hostile to one another
as they sensed the doom of everything outside. The hand
selection of God was what separated them from the fate that
found all other creatures not on board.
I don’t doubt that there were times of great discomfort and
inconvenience for everyone and everything. Long extended
journeys of any kind can have its moments. Nevertheless,
there are certain facts that can not be denied or dismissed.
No matter what the conditions were like inside, the grass was
not greener on the outside.
I will praise God right here, right now, right where I’m at. In rain
and flood tides, I will worship God by faith and by choice. It's a
privilege just to be on board … by His choice.
that Ark with Noah and his household. No matter how delicate
or how fierce, lions and sheep, doves and ravens all bunked
under one roof with the chosen family.
Every accommodation had to be accounted for including food
consumption, waste disposal, and time spent enduring all this,
yet I wonder about the sounds. I imagine the animals and their
host family were more often silent than hostile to one another
as they sensed the doom of everything outside. The hand
selection of God was what separated them from the fate that
found all other creatures not on board.
I don’t doubt that there were times of great discomfort and
inconvenience for everyone and everything. Long extended
journeys of any kind can have its moments. Nevertheless,
there are certain facts that can not be denied or dismissed.
No matter what the conditions were like inside, the grass was
not greener on the outside.
I will praise God right here, right now, right where I’m at. In rain
and flood tides, I will worship God by faith and by choice. It's a
privilege just to be on board … by His choice.
| #22 Interior Accents |
Praise
by Sharon Johnson | 06-30-08
by Sharon Johnson | 06-30-08
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Praise and Worship are Choices by Faith.
Scripture References:
- Genesis 7 verses 1-5
- 1. And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house
into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this
generation.
2. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the
male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the
male and his female.
3. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to
keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth
forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have
made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5. And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded
him.
- Psalms 34 verses 1-3
- 1. I Will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be
in my mouth.
2. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall
hear thereof, and be glad.
3. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
- Acts 16 verses 23-26
- 23. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast
them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
24. Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the
inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
25. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises
unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
26. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the
foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the
doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
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