From Genesis 6: The “However” Life

See if this sounds familiar:

By Genesis 6, the corruption that came in sin reaches its fullest possible expression. All of everything is regrettably, tragically, lamentably lost. Wrongful lusts and out-of-bounds relationships and darkened thinking all run rampant in an unrepentant humanity. Heaven’s judgment is the predictable end.

Sound like any earth you know?

Yet there remains one distinct life on the darkened scene: Noah, we’re told, remained righteous. His is a “however” life (v. 8). Everyone else has taken sin and run with it. Noah has run from it.

We ought to follow the “however” path. It starts with cherishing the grace-gift of salvation, but it cannot end there. You are called to distinction in a dark world. You are urged away from the things the wider culture chooses, even celebrates, though it undoubtedly sets you apart from them. And you are tasked with radical obedience.

Will you choose a “however” life in your lived days?

— Tyler