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Swimming against the stream

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Announcements › Forums › Life – January 21st, 2018 › Swimming against the stream

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  • January 19, 2018 at 12:01 pm #5815
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    Genesis 6: 9 “… and Noah walked with God.”
    Genesis 7: 5 “And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.”

    Noah had such faith in God that he was able to swim against the stream of corruption that was around him. It could not have been easy to build the ark (for years and years) while everyone was probably mocking what he was doing, yet he forged ahead. He was so sure of God’s presence that nothing else mattered than to be obedient to Him.

    From MacLaren’s Expositions:

    “What beauty there is in that description of the isolated man, passing lonely amid his contemporaries, like a stream of pure water flowing through some foul liquid, and untouched by it, and yet not alone in his loneliness, because ‘he walked with God!’ The less he found congenial companionship on earth, the more he realised God as by his side. The remarkable phrase, used only of Enoch and of Noah, implies a closer relation than the other expression, ‘To walk before God.’ Communion, the habitual occupation of mind and heart with God, the happy sense of His presence making every wilderness and solitary place glad because of Him.”

    Noah’s resolve also reminded of what Herbert Eustace says in Christian Science, Its Clear, Correct Teaching

    “You must arrive at the point where it would make no difference to you if there were not another Christian Scientist in the world. You must so understand Christian Science, and its truth must be so vital to you that you would be satisfied to be the only Christian Scientist, if that were necessary.”

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