40 days & 40 nights

I just finished my quiet time and read about Noah and the flood. Of course this is a familiar story and have read/heard it countless times in my life. Each time I read it I can't help but think about the experience on the ark. It may have only rained for 40 days and nights but they were on that ark for about a year. They had every kind of animal that was on the earth in the ark with them for a YEAR! I don't even want to imagine how that place smelled or sounded. Noah had been faithful to God and God protected him. This was God's way of starting over and He chose Noah to help him do that. This dude was 600 years old and he did what the Lord asked and didn't ask questions. I'm only 20 and if God asked me to build and ark because he was going to destroy the earth, I'm not sure if I could do that. I have realized that's not how I want to live. I want to be able to say live my life and hold nothing back. I want to live everyday for the Lord and glorify him in all that I do. That is a lot easier said than done but I want to be someone that people see a difference in. I don't want to be just another face or person that people know. I want them to see Jesus in my life. I've been thinking about this for a while but something always comes up and it slips my mind or I get distracted doing other things. I know that I will fail. Obviously I have already failed a lot in my life, but that doesn't matter. God still loves me and he is still sovereign. He is always there to pick me up and encourage me to press on. This year hasn't started out the way I had expected. But it is times like these where I want to see God work and I am so thankful that he is in control. It doesn't matter if everything in this earth fails or falls away, God is still there. Nothing can shake him and nothing can stop him from loving me. 


"The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done." Genesis 8:21