CHAPTER 16

SINCE THE BEGINNING, I HAVE WANTED TO BE NEAR MEN OF FAITH.

I thought about Adam, then having to survive outside of the exquisitely beautiful garden. And also I thought about Eve and their young children struggling just to keep alive.

I remembered Noah, and I thought of the heart of the LOVING GOD in WHOSE PRESENCE I remained: How it must have hurt HIM to know that only one man of faith remained among all of the men and woman on the earth.

CREATION WAS GOOD.

Would God ask me what to do? Must I again judge the fate of mankind?

Genesis 6: 5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

I HAD GRACE FOR NOAH, BECAUSE HE ALONE HAD FAITH FOR OBEDIENCE TO MY WILL.

ROGER, IF I ASKED YOU TO BUILD AN ARK FIVE STORIES HIGH, LONGER THAN A FOOTBALL STADIUM, AND WITH THE STORAGE AREA OF 569 RAILROAD CARS, WOULD YOU DO IT?

I pictured myself swimming for my life in a storm.

WHERE DO I FIND A MAN WITH FAITH LIKE THAT, NOW?

“Lord, I need more grace than Noah. Many men have much more faith than me, Lord.”

(Was I trying to encourage THE LORD GOD, I asked myself?)

I do love HIM.

To be continued…

A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

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