I wonder if Noah had second thoughts....

when he saw the rain clouds rolling in? Seriously, he's got the family with him, the in-laws, two of every type of animal all loaded up in this ark he built himself and now the sky starts getting really dark. The llama's are spitting all over the place. Maybe it's the Alpaca's? Monkeys swinging to and fro. Crawling things and flying things. Two rabbits and now four and then eight and the thunder starts up. You look over all this around you and you would have to think,"Did I hear him right?"

But Noah walked with God is what the bible says. He got the plans on how to build it and who to put on it from the Man himself. And that got me to thinking about things. If we feel certain that we are children of God and we know his plan is for us to prosper, why are we such cowards that we argue and try and negotiate with God? Why don't we trust Him more? Why do we think we know just a little bit more than He does? Could it be by design? Stick with me.

What if God knows we are going to barter? And we all do. "You know I would tithe that whole 10% but things have been a little slow this week and I'll make it up next week." Or how about this one, "Forgive me father for I have sinned. I spent some of our rent money to buy clothes for the under privileged." Never mind the fact that the under privileged in question was a twenty year old stripper who gave you a lap dance. Or a bookie who you lost the rent money to. He knows we are flawed from the beginning so this could be His way of delivering us back to Him.

There is an old joke about the difference between people who pray in church and people who pray in casino's. The folks praying in a casino really mean it. The element of truth is there. Do the people who listen to and talk to God on a regular basis need sin? Of course not but the more they talk to Him the less sin should occur in their lives. Sounds logical enough to me.

The way I see it, and this is only my viewpoint, we don't trust Him more because we still have fear. If you consider yourself a Christian, should you ever worry? Nope. Be fearful ? Nope. Be rude or dismissive? Nope. Hateful? Nope. Jealous? Nope. And on and on. Yet we are. And we are going to be. Because if we don't sin and fall short of God's plan then we would never need His forgiveness. His grace. His love. And if we still have just a little amount of fear then we will always need His grace. Now I am not recommending knocking off a bank or any other random act of sin. I am merely trying to explain why God has.....There is your perfect example. A very flawed human being giving his take on God's plan. Tune in tomorrow for my cancer cure.



Till next......