Today it was Genesis 6, 7, and 8 - so it was all about the flood. What I find interesting about this - this being going through the bible again as an educated adult - is that I am asking questions that I never asked before. Today when I begun reading in Gen. 6:4 it talks about the Nephilim - I had never really paid attention to this. I researched a little this morning about it and apparently the Nephilim where a race from the "Men of God" and the "Daughters of Men" - so some type of hybrid race that where"BIG" - is some stuff I read they called them Giants. I am not sure of the accuracy of all this cause - after all, this is the Bible we are studying... one of the most debated literature books out there. Do you have an opinion on this? One article said the "Men of God" were the fallen angels???? I have not formed my opinion yet, its still in the making.
There are many men in the Bible that God "called" certain things - like David was called "the lover of God" - well I love that Noah was called "blameless among the people of his kind" and "one that walked with God". I don't know what the nation and the people where like back then, but I do know what our nation is like now and I don't know how it could have possibly been worse in Noah's time. In our time how would you like to be called the "blameless one"???? Or have the reputation of "walking with God"... That is a true dream! If only the God who sees all and sees everything within my heart would call me blameless.. ahhh or consider me so Faithful... back to reality - my mind gets lost in that thought and how beautiful that would be!
Something else in this mornings reading. Now, I am sure a lot of you have seen the movie Evan All Mighty so as I read this those images are stuck in my head. But you have a man, a man who is considered blameless in Gods eyes and who "walks with God", he was told to build an ark on dry ground in anticipation of water flooding the land. A little crazy - at least in today's world, there are not many who wouldn't look at that as someone who needed to be put in a crazy hospital! BUT ... if all mankind was going to be KILLED what would it matter what they thought? We all get embarrassed - its part of the shame from Adam and Eve, it is our awareness of being "naked". So Noah HAD to be embarrassed by building an ARK on dry ground. So when I think of that I can so envious of the Faith he must have had. He had to of had people gawking at him, laughing, you name it... if the world was bad enough to destroy, the people probably did horrible things to someone believing in something so out of the box. But - Noah had the Faith to believe in the unknown, against all the craziness that was around him - he believed.
This ended up being a longer post, but it hit a soft spot with me. Over the past three years of my life I have had to Believe in more intangible stuff than I have had to in the rest of my life. I feel like I am at that position again but it is not easier now even though I have been there before. I need to walk with God - look at Him - and Believe the rain is coming.
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