6月14日
标 题：挪亚与神同行
经 节：惟有挪亚在耶和华眼前蒙恩。挪亚的后代记在下面。挪亚是个义人，在当时的世代是个完全人。挪亚与神同行。（创世记六章8～9节）
无论你所处的环境是多么不圣洁，神总会查找你，与你同行。挪亚也许是在历史上最邪恶的世代，没有人敬拜神，所有的人都拜偶像，贪享宴乐。挪亚所有的街坊邻居都是邪恶的。他在市场、街上、公众聚集处所遇见的每个人都嘲笑他。所有你能想像到的试探，挪亚都碰见了。对一个公义的人来说，这是多么大的压制啊！
在挪亚时代的人十分邪恶，因此神计画完全彻底地毁灭他们，这是圣经记载中，神最严厉的作为。然而，在一群罪人之中，神并没有忽略了挪亚。神注意挪亚每个正直的行为。挪亚不管周遭人的行为如何，仍然选择要在神面前过正直诚实的生活，这一切都看在神的眼里。也许挪亚有时会质疑自己过正直诚实的生活，是否有其必要，因为其他人并不是这样作，但他坚持下去。他对公义的持守，救了自己与全家人的性命。
你是否常被邪恶的事物所环绕？当周遭所有的人都对神漠不关心时，你是否为了持守正直公义的生活，有时也会挣扎不已？由挪亚的例子中，我们可以拥有十足的把握。神在看你，就像从前祂观察挪亚一样。每一回祂都会在众人中查找你，祂要祝福你与你的家人，就像祂曾经祝福挪亚一样。
Noah Walked with
God
But Noah found
grace in the eyes of the LORD. . . Noah was a just man, perfect in his
generations. Noah walked with God. (Genesis 6:8-9)
No matter how ungodly the environment you may be in, God will always
find you and walk with you. Noah lived in perhaps the most wicked age in
history. No one worshiped God. All the people worshiped idols and pursued their
own sinful pleasures. Noah’s neighbors were evil; every person he associated
with in the marketplace, or along the street, or in public gatherings,
ridiculed the very thought of being faithful to God. Every temptation
imaginable was abundantly available to Noah. How oppressive such an environment
would have been to a righteous person!
The people of Noah’s day were so wicked that God planned the most
complete and drastic act of judgment recorded in Scripture. Nevertheless, Noah
was not lost to God in the crowd of sinners. God noticed every act of Noah’s
righteousness. Noah had chosen to live uprightly before God despite what
everyone around him was doing, and God had observed him. There may have been
times when Noah wondered if it mattered if he lived a righteous life, since no
one else was. Yet he continued, and his persistence in righteousness saved his
life and the lives of his family members.
Are you constantly surrounded by evil? Do you struggle at times to live
a righteous life when those you associate with each day have no concern for
God? Find assurance in the life of Noah. God watches you, even as He observed
Noah. God will seek you out of the crowd every time, and He wants to bless you
and your family just as He blessed Noah.
