Scripture:
Genesis 7:1
The Lord then
said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have
found you righteous in this generation.
In Genesis 7:1, God tells Noah to take his whole
family with him into the ark. This includes his wife, his three sons, and his
sons' wives. All of them are to be saved in the ark. Why?
"Because I have found YOU righteous in this
generation," God explains.
Now, that "you" is not plural. God isn't
saying that He's found Noah and his whole family to be righteous. He's saying
that He's found Noah to be righteous. That's it.
The truth is that we don't know the spiritual
state of Noah's wife or his sons or his sons' wives. Were they like Noah or
were they like the rest of people in Noah's day whose "the first
inclination of their heart was only evil all the time"?
Let me ask you this: What's the spiritual state of
your family? Are they all Christians?
No doubt that Noah had a profound impact on his
wife and his sons. As a righteous man, he probably would have done his best to
find a righteous woman to marry. He would have done his best to raise righteous
children and help them choose righteous women as well.
In the same way, you can have great influence over
your family. Your faith and leadership can help guide them closer and closer to
Christ.
If your family members aren't Christian yet,
Noah's family may not have been following God at this point either. Maybe God
saved them from the Flood because He knew the influence that Noah would
continue to have on them. Maybe God hoped and knew that they would one day
follow Him as their father did.
If some of your family members aren't yet
following Christ, continue to have that same hope. Keep being righteous in your
generation and let your faith continue to influence them, just as Noah's did in
his family.
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