A WAY WITH PEOPLE
Today's reading: Genesis 4-7

"Pairs of each kind of bird and each kind of animal, large and small alike, will come to you to be kept alive." Genesis 6:20 NLT

How did Noah feel when a pair of tigers rubbed up against his leg, purring like kittens? Was Mrs. Noah as gun-ho about this project when the pair of boa constrictors and the two crocodiles slithered into their home? What about the mosquitoes, spiders and ticks? The bears? The ostriches, with their long necks and nosey personalities?

God had given Noah a 'way' with animals. God gave the animals the knowledge to seek Noah and his family out for safety before the first raindrop hit the ground.

How might it have felt?

How does it feel today?

God has awarded you with His Spirit. He intends us to use the Spirit, and all the power, mercy, love and grace it bestows, to rescue people.

The ones that 'happen' to come up to you in Wal-Mart. The grocery store clerks that bend your ear a little longer than the customers before or after you. The friend that calls out of the blue to ask you about this 'church thing' you've been involved with for years and years. The co-worker that shares their latest doctor's diagnosis and leans heavily on you to 'do what you do'--pray. The family members who must stand beside a casket filled with a heavy, hopeless heart.

God has placed within the Christian's heart a 'way with people'.

There's a flood of unrighteousness and darkness that those we live around need to be rescued from...are you doing it with your whole heart?