Random Acts of Kindness
Reverend Dr. Glenn A. Harris
Exodus 25:10-22
Introduction
Many things go on in our everyday lives that we often forget to do something kind for the next. We get busy and uppity that when we see other people down we talk trash about them, kick them when they are down, we get rich and forget about the poor, get big houses and forget about the homeless, we get so much food and forget about the hungry.
With light of the incidents with floods, tornadoes, tidal waves and other natural disasters that have gone on in our world today people come together and help each other out, by making sandwiches, helping out making sure people have shelter when their homes have been destroyed by disasters in each and every town in the world from north to south and from east and west.
Lets look at the story of Noah
God saw how great wickedness had become and decided to wipe mankind from the face of the earth. However, one righteous man among all the people of that time, Noah, found favor in God’s eyes. With very specific instructions, God told Noah to build an ark for him and his family in preparation for a catastrophic flood that would destroy every living thing on earth.
God also instructed Noah to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, along with every kind of food to be stored as food for the animals and his family while on the ark. Noah obeyed everything God commanded him to do.
After they entered the ark, rain fell on the earth for a period of forty days and nights. The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days, and every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out. As the waters receded, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Noah and his family continued to wait for almost eight more months while the surface of the earth dried out.
Finally after an entire year, God invited Noah to come out of the ark. Immediately, he built an altar and worshiped the Lord with burnt offerings from some of the clean animals. God was pleased with the offerings and promised never again to destroy all the living creatures as he had just done. Later God established a covenant with Noah: “Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” As a sign of this everlasting covenant God set a rainbow in the clouds.
take a look at these points of interest in this story of Noah
•God’s purpose in the flood was not to destroy people, but to destroy wickedness and sin.
•With more detail, God instructed Noah to take seven of every kind of clean animal, and two of every kind of unclean animal. Bible scholars have calculated that approximately 45,000 animals might have fit on the ark.
•Genesis 7:16 interestingly points out that God shut them in the ark, or “closed the door,” so to speak.
•The ark was exactly six times longer than it was wide. According to the Life Application Bible study notes, this is the same ratio used by modern ship builders.
Life Lesson
If God was trying to wipe away wickedness and sin then what is he trying to do to the little town of Ft. Pierre/ Pierre, SD or any other place at that matter? Maybe we need to check ourselves in our own wickedness and sin among us and God is wiping it all away through the act of a flood.
Conclusion
So question where has the Random Acts of Kindness gone? good question it has been washed away by all the wickedness and sin of the world today. Take this life lesson and this message that whatever your wickedness or sin is end it and hand it over to God and he will deliver you out of your darkness.
Stop being bitter towards others and having anger upon others, and being deceitful and untruthful to people just to get ahead. Remember the flood God delivered unto Noah can be the same he can deliver in other forms of disasters.
•helping that old lady cross the street
•helping someone with gorceries if they dont have the money
•helping someone if they need some change to get a meal
•helping someone when they are down in a situation
always think what is good and in perfect in the eyes of God to help someone out in anytime of a hardship in anyone’s lives, because you never know what a person is going through. ARK is reaarranging the letters of ARK to RAK and you get Random Acts of Kindness start TODAY!
