BBD 05.11.15 Jump In! (Classic)
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The Burning
Bush Devotional
Classic
from 2007
05.11.15
Jump In!
And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for
the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them
with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and
cover it inside and outside with pitch. And this is how you shall make it….” -
Genesis 6:13-15a NKJV.
And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from
under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on
the earth shall die. But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall
go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. -
Genesis 6:17-18 NKJV.
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your
household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this
generation.” - Genesis 7:1 NKJV.
And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is
the breath of life. So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went
in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in. - Genesis 7:15-16 NKJV.
Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. And the
waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days. - Genesis 7:23c-24
NKJV.
This morning on CNN (2007), I watched as Dr. Roger
Bielasz stood looking at the old swimming pool that had saved him and his wife
from the inferno of fire that had engulfed the area, destroyed their home and
killed their neighbors. Roger and Dena huddled in the cold water under a rocky
overhang for what Roger described
as “an eternity and a half” which was actually about three hours. The rocky overhang
and the water protected them from the firestorm, and the burning embers falling
down all around them. They jumped into the old pool that they had at one time
planned to fill in, and they survived. One scrap of a page from an old book of
Dr. Bielasz’ mother survived with the words, “no will but God’s” on that
surviving scrap of paper.
What a horrific experience! To barely escape from your
house, and then watch as your house burns down wondering all the while whether
or not you will survive. If only their neighbors had been able to make it to
the pool, they would have survived as well. However, it may be that they had no
warning, and without any warning it was just too late to escape that terrible
fate.
This all reminded me of the disaster that came upon the
people of Noah’s age. Noah had some warning, decades of time, as he built the
huge ship that would carry the animals and his family to safety. The people of
that time could not have ignored the building of the gigantic ship on dry land.
If only they had turned to God before it was too late, they too could have been
saved. However, it was only the animals and the family of Noah that were
onboard the Ark when the hand of God shut them in.
There is a spiritual firestorm raging around us today,
and countless millions have already succumbed to the deadly rampage, having
gone out into eternity bound for a devil’s hell. It does not have to be this
way! God has provided an Ark, a place of safety for us; if only we would turn
and jump into it. The Ark of this time is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Ark!
He is the swimming pool of safety. He took our punishment upon Himself;
suffering and dying for us so that we might have a Savior, that we might have
an Ark of safety.
Through the mercy of God, we have been warned. Before it
is eternally too late, let us jump into the Ark, the Ark of Jesus Christ and be
saved.
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