January 4

It had only been 12 generations until the earth was full of nastiness! There was only 1 guy who found God’s favor, 1 guy who preserved himself from all the evil, 1 guy who walked with God – Noah. What did Noah get in return? A covenant! What interested me today was the lesson of Noah’s children and their wives. They came under the covenant that God made with Noah. The Bible doesn’t say whether they were righteous or not, and even hints that Ham had a flawed character, but God made the covenant with Noah and thereby with his sons and their wives (and Noah’s wife too).

Either God has to make a covenant with you or you have to be related to someone with whom He has made a covenant with. In other words, blessed by association! Who are you associated with? I know that all of this relates wonderfully to Christ, and I don’t want to pass up that distinction – of course it is when I am hid in Christ that I receive the new covenant that was made with Him. I get all the benefits of the covenant through Him. So if I reject Christ, I reject the covenant. If I fail to believe in that covenant, I don’t get the benefits of the covenant. If I am ignorant of the covenant promises, then I can’t stand on them and expect God to deliver. Likewise, if I think that it is by my own actions or righteousness that I attain the promises, I am not relying on the covenant that Christ “cut” with God the Father, but on the old covenant (and I fail at that). However, the life of the Word came to me today and said that my children will benefit from my relationship with God. That was the word to me today. Your children, and the people connected with them, will benefit or have the chance of benefitting from your relationship with Christ and the covenant that you are under! Are you getting this!? This is especially towards the heads of households, but all of us have an eternally significant effect on the people we are related to and in relation with. That is an incredible blessing that needs to be thought through!