April 15 was the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. I remember my father singing the ballad that was later written of that tragedy. One line was “They said they’d built a ship that even God couldn’t sink.”
When warning after warning was received of dangerous icebergs in the area, no one heeded the warning.
There was another vessel built by unskilled ship builders some 4,500 years ago. In Genesis 6 we read that God told Noah to build an ark: 450’ long, 75’ wide, 45’ tall.
God said he was going to judge a wicked, sinful people by sending a flood.
For 120 years, while people mocked Noah and his three sons for building the huge ship, Noah warned the people that God was going to flood the earth because of their sin. They must repent if they wanted to escape God’s judgment. There could have been millions of people on the earth at that time. Not one heeded the warning!
The day came when God closed the door on the ark, preserving the lives of Noah’s family of eight and the creatures God had led into the ark. He opened the floodgates of Heaven and the fountains of the deep. Every man, woman and child outside the ark died.
There is coming a final day of judgment when a righteous, Holy God will judge every person who has not trusted in the “Ark” of salvation, the Lord Jesus Christ.
God loves you so much that He sent His sinless Son to die in your place and mine for our sins. Only Jesus can fill that God-shaped vacuum in your life.
Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes unto the Father except by Me.”
Won’t you trust in Him today, confess your sin and ask Jesus to be your Lord and Savior? Then no matter what the future holds, you will be ready, safe in the “Ark” from God’s pending wrath against sin and an eternity in Hell.
Rae Piepho
Lutsen
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