{"id":225810,"date":"2025-10-31T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vayhub.us\/rdpt22\/?p=225810"},"modified":"2025-10-30T21:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:47:09","slug":"gea08-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vayhub.us\/rdpt22\/gea08-5","title":{"rendered":"GeA08-5: Faith in Things Not Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\">Genesis 6:22 (NIV84)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><sup>22<\/sup>Noah did everything just as God commanded him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Hebrews 11:7 (NIV84)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><sup>7<\/sup>By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Matthew 24:38\u201339 (NIV84)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><sup>38<\/sup>For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; <sup>39<\/sup>and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In a world that prizes evidence, experience, and empirical proof, Noah stands as a towering example of a different way of knowing and living. By faith, the author of Hebrews tells us, Noah acted. He was warned about <em>&#8220;things not seen,&#8221;<\/em> a catastrophe for which there was no precedent and no physical evidence[1]. All his senses and experiences would have told him that his task was absurd. Yet he chose to live and act on the basis of God\u2019s revelation, not on the basis of his own feelings or reason. He shows us that the very heart of the serpent&#8217;s original lie was to contradict the word of God, and the very heart of faith is to trust it above all else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This faith, we are told, was expressed in <em>&#8220;holy fear.&#8221;<\/em> This is not the cowering terror of a slave before a tyrant. Rather, it is the profound inner awe and wonder a creature feels before its Creator. Trusting God\u2019s Word had reoriented Noah\u2019s entire reality. His heart and behavior were now controlled by the world as God defined it, not as the culture around him did. This holy fear did not make him anxious or fragile; it made him imperturbable. It gave him the strength to withstand the ridicule of an entire world and the courage to build an ark on dry land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Noah\u2019s obedience, then, did not <em>earn<\/em> his salvation; it was the evidence <em>of<\/em> it. His righteousness was one that <em>&#8220;comes by faith.&#8221;<\/em> Because he first <em>found<\/em> grace (Gen 6:8), he was able to walk in faith, and that faith was expressed in radical, costly obedience. He is a great example for all who live as believers in a pagan world. Saturated with the Word of God, he could see reality as God saw it, not as his culture defined it. It was this faith, rooted in God\u2019s grace and expressed in holy fear, that allowed him to condemn the world by his steady obedience and, in doing so, to save his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Reflect, Share &amp; Prayer:<\/strong> Noah was called to act on a warning about something he had never seen. In what area of your life is God calling you to trust His word over what you can see, feel, or logically deduce? Pray for a &#8220;holy fear&#8221; that leads to courageous, faith-filled obedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">[1] Genesis 2:5\u20136 (NIV84) <sup>5<\/sup>&#8230;the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, <sup>6<\/sup>but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 6:22 (NIV84) 22Noah did everything just as God commanded him. Hebrews 11:7 (NIV84) 7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. 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