Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.”
NL Daily Devotion for Saturday, September 16, 2023
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Noah walked with God. That’s it. This echoes the sentiment of Micah 6:8, which asks, “What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” When all the world was a morass of evil that grieved God to God’s very heart and made God regret creating humanity at all, this one man, Noah, gets it. And that’s all God needs to completely change God’s tune about those created in God’s image.
Sometimes it’s the littlest thing—a kind word, a gesture, an act of service—that can stop me in my downward spiral of frustration with my life, and remind me that I am not doing this alone. The people in my life—those who know me deeply and always have my back, but also sometimes complete strangers—can shift my entire outlook, change my mood, and move me toward positive, forward action rather than simply staying mired in self-pity and regret. It’s God who is showing up in those moment, God who is inviting me to walk with God, and promising that God is always right there to walk with me. What a gift!
In what ways do I walk with God on a daily basis?
