Genesis Chapter 8: When God Brings You Through the Storm, Are You Just As Committed?

When God puts you on the other side of the storm, are you just as committed to serving Him as you were during the storm?  What kinds of behaviors got you through the storm?

Dedication?  Daily prayer? Walking away from certain things?  The same commitment it took to get through the storm, will be the same level of commitment you will need on the other side of it.  We can see it easily, when it comes to basketball or sports.

We may have our children (or ourselves) work out everyday in a grueling regimen that focuses on strength and conditioning, skills, and knowledge of the sport.  We may read to find out more about it and study famous players to glean information about how they made it in the sport we want to play, yet we sometimes don’t apply they same level of discipline to our spiritual development.  Why would we expect that our walk with God wouldn’t take commitment or that we wouldn’t be tempted, along the way, to go off of the path that God has provided for us?  In fact, it isn’t the path (necessarily) that guarantees your success, it’s your commitment to it that does.  When we go through things in life, it isn’t always that God is trying to work through a situation, but it may be that God is trying to develop in you the characteristics necessary for your success that weren’t developed in you when you had everything easy.

If you are able to develop the behaviors in you, that are necessary for your success (make them habits), you may also be able to experience peace and happiness in your service to God when you are not in the storm.

God’s grace and active presence in your life can be multiplied by your obedience and commitment to his will.

Genesis 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

After coming from the ark, Noah built an altar to God and served him with some of the same things God commanded him to preserve in the ark. 

What types of things do we need to do to continue our commitment and to manifest God’s purpose in our lives?  Well, that’s what studying the Bible is all about.  Let’s explore!