What these verses
speak to me about is attachments. People get attached to a way of life. We
develop a certain way of living and devote ourselves to it. It's not hard to
keep busy with all the stuff we can do in life. It is so easy to become
consumed by living that we fail to learn how to live. We get so busy doing life
that we miss out on life.
In Noah's day people
totally missed the witness God had given them that their way of life had to
stop. No one caught up in the flood could claim while they were drowning that
God was not fair or that they didn't deserve to die. Who could miss seeing the
ark being built? Who could have missed knowing that Noah was up to something
big? I am quite sure that everyone knew from Noah's witness that judgment was
coming to earth. They dismissed it as being the ways of a foolish old man, but
they nevertheless had to know that something was going on.
Today, God is
likewise giving the world ample warning of impending disaster. People are for
the most part ignoring His warnings and going on about their merry ways. A lot
of living is going on, but few have truly found life.
Don't be among those
who are too busy living to find life. Life is not about the activity we fill
our days with; it is about our relationship with God. Unless we truly repent
and give ourselves wholly over to God, we will die in our sins and miss the
life God gives. There is no hope for those who are too busy living to live.
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