Okay so I know that descendant list for Adam was long to read though, but you made it. Notice that Seth was 105 years old when he became the father of Enosh, and we read in chapter 4 yesterday that it was not until Enosh was born that people started praying and praising in God's name. Amazing to think about eh? What about living for 962 years, are you game for that? Maybe if I can be fit and active and independent and not look old...maybe. Then there is Enoch, not to be mixed up with Enosh, who "lived in close fellowship with God" (NLT). Enoch lived a total of 665 years, but then it does not say that he died, he disappeared because God took him. I wonder what people thought, Enoch must have been missed since it was noticed that he just disappeared. However the whole point of the listing of the descendants of Adam seems to be to show us the linage from Adam to Noah.
Could you imagine being Noah? I wonder if Noah knew what God meant when he said it was going to rain for 40 days and nights? If we look at yesterdays reading when it was talking about the garden of Eden, it was talking about a mist coming up from the ground to water the earth. Nothing about something coming from the sky. So when God told Noah, build a boat because it is going to rain and Noah followed God's command, wow that would be a jump of faith now wouldn't it. Noah might not have even known why they would need a boat, but God told him to build it and so he did. Noah did not even question. It made me think about my son when I ask him to do something. Right now I get every question form of why. It isn't that J does not want to do what I have asked him, at least most of the time, it is because he wants to understand why he needs to do it. It is part of a child's developmental stages to ask why. We too are in the child like developmental stage in our faith.
Let's face it, if God asked us to build a boat because something was going to happen that we did not understand, wouldn't we ask why? I think we would have hundreds of questions for God, let us be honest, when God asks us to do anything don't we question God. We try to figure out why, or we try to get out of doing it by asking questions because it is out of our comfort zone. What would 2012 be like if we tried to walk in faith more than we did in 2011? Maybe you are good at taking steps of faith, good for you :-)! However most of us struggle with walking in faith like Noah did. We learn though that when Noah walked in faith all his needs were provided for and God walked with them, they were never alone.
What do you think? How would you have reacted if you were Noah? Is God asking you to do something in your life that you have yet to step out of faith and do? What captured your heart in these four chapters of Genesis?
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