Yup, me too. And in a few days, I have to give a sermon about it! But there’s a line that got my attention: Noah found favor with God. How did Noah ‘find favor’? By listening and taking God’s word seriously. There was no law yet. God hadn’t really given the people any rules to follow…hadn’t really told them what they shouldn’t do. The only thing God desired from the story of creation on, was to be in relationship with the people. How many other people did God try to talk with, but they brushed off God’s voice or convinced themselves it wasn’t real? We can get caught up in measuring our right-ness or righteousness against other people while God is inviting us to listen and join His work. – Pastor Trudy Stoffel
