Journal 4-16-14

       I am sitting in my room this afternoon, watching a preview of the movie Noah. I wish I was a free man and could go see the movie. It looks like a movie I would like. I wonder if the man who directed the movie is a Christian and tried to keep it realistic and God glorifying. Who knows? Either way I would still like to see the movie.
       In Genesis 6:13 God said “I have determined to make an end to all flesh” then He gave Noah instruction to build an ark. In verse 17, God said for behold, I will bring a flood or waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breadth of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die (verse 18) but I will establish my covenant with you (Noah) and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons wives with you. Can you imagine what Noah might have felt like when God told him that He would spare him and his family? In reading this story I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity that I have with Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ in our lives we will one day die and die forever. Because I know that I have not lived a life as obedient to God as Noah, He would have drowned me for sure. I have often taken for granted my salvation and I am afraid that I’m not the only one. I feel so lucky to have a “savior”, a “life line”, an ark to rescue my soul. Thank you Jesus for your saving grace because without you I would surely die.
       1 John 2:1-2 – my little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. What does that mean for us Hunter? That means that we must be born again. For real. You were born of water with your worldly mother but in order for all of us to get to heaven and saved from the wrath of God like Noah’s family, we need a savior, an ark. That ark is Jesus Christ and the way we get to Him is by being born again, our second birth, birth of the Spirit. That’s what happens when we ask God to come and live inside of us. It is what happens when we begin to live for God. If any man be in Christ he is a new creation; old things have passed away behold all things are new (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Prayer

Father God, I pray that my friends and family know that they are saved and if they have doubt I pray that they get rid of it and I pray Father God that they might be born again and know what that means.

Thoughts:
Amos 5:4 – For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, “Seek me, and ye shall live…”
Revelation 12:11-12 – “And they have conquered him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Therefore rejoice O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea for the devil has come down to you in great wrath because he knows that his time is short.”
       That means our time is short too! Do you have an ark in your life? Do you have a savior, the savior, the Lord Jesus Christ in your life? Have you been born again? If you are born once you will die twice. If you are born twice you will die once. Think about it.