God saw the wickedness of man and was about to destroy everything that breathed on the face of the earth, “But Noah found grace (khane) in the eyes of the LORD.” This is the first occurrence of grace in the Bible and its root means, ‘to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor or bestow.’ Judgement is getting what we deserve; Grace is getting what we don’t deserve; But there is one better, mercy; Mercy is not getting what we do deserve! Now why did Noah, and only Noah I might add find grace in the eyes of the LORD? The answer is in the last four words of verse 9, “Noah walked with God.” As with Enoch, you can’t walk with God without talking with Him. Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abram, all walked with God as did Elijah, David, Daniel and a host of others. Remember the Hebrew word for walk means, ‘to go on habitually.’ A habitual progress in holiness (halak) to walk on continually, and be conversant. If you can imagine two friends walking together on a long journey and never conversing, then you can imagine a man walking with God like Noah for 500 years and never Praying! Noah like Enoch walked so close to God that God took him and put him in an ark and shut the door!
Notice if you will three things about this prayer warrior in v. 9; First he was a just man (tsadik) just, lawful, righteous; Second he was a perfect man (tameem) integrity, truth, without blemish, complete, without spot. (Noah was a sinner just like us but obviously he knew God’s way and offered sacrifices like Abel not Cain, but he must have been the only one at this point, remember only Noah found ‘GRACE’ in the eyes of the LORD.) A good acrostic for GRACE is, ‘God Rejects All Carnal Effort’ or ‘God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense.’ So, how do we find it today, the same way Noah found it then, except we look back to the cross. The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and Noah looked forward to it. Gen. 3:15, God’s plan of redemption, Adam knew it, Abel knew it, Seth knew it, Enosh knew it, Noah knew it, but do you know it? Third he walked with God, ‘to go on habitually.’ Is this not what God requires of every man and woman today? Micah 6:8 says, “And what does the LORD require (seek or ask) of you;” Three things; First, to do justly; Second, to love mercy; Third, to walk humbly with your God. To do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly; sounds like Noah, Enoch, Abram. A just man, a perfect man who walked (eth) with God, and found ‘Grace’ in the eyes of the LORD. Noah knew God intimately and habitually walked and talked with Him; Noah above all else was a man of prayer, a man who had sweet, intimate, intercourse with the Creator and God delivered into his hands the world and the total future population. He built an ark, entered in with his family and God ‘Shut the Door!’ Gen. 7:16. We too need to be shut in with the Lord, Matt. 6:6 tells us to go into our prayer chamber and shut the door and pray to our heavenly Father who is already there waiting for us.
“Oh God, may we habitually walk with You and may You shut us in alone with Yourself daily. May we do justly, may we love mercy and may we walk humbly before, You. Lord, help us to be like Noah, Enoch, Abram and especially, Jesus! May we walk and talk with You today and every day, in Your Son’s name we pray. Amen!” ‘Between The Lines’ “Portraits of Prayer in Genesis” (Noah – Part #1)
the scarlet worm 
What do you do when in prayer, you close your eyes and all you feel is a dark cold wall. Like your literally talking to yourself time and time again? Its as if the conversation is dead and someone else isnt even there. I find myself in this place often. Not often, all the time. My spiritual relationship with God has gone through its cycles of up and down good times and bad, but I can never seem to forget the time when I could hear him. When I knew he was listening. Prayer became a conscious state of mind rather than a solitary action and it was an awareness of his presence next to me and around me as we conversed 24 hours a day. i have tried and tried and tried to jump start this relatioship but it all seems to no avail. This place is extremely difficult and discouraging after seeing that real relationship, actual face to face, person on person relationship is all there is in this life. That that is what he came to redeem us to and I keep missing it. I feel as though I am at a juncture in my life now when I need him the most. It is do or die time. Spiritually and literally it is do or die, i dont know how much longer I can tread these waters. The religousity of christianity and the efforts at rightness and sinnlessness and ministry are null and void with having him infused in my soul. At least in such an active way so that I know he is there. Some say get the sin out of your life, others say its a test, and still others say read and pray more, do more ministry, tithe more. As if some work of man is going to get me him. As if we work harder with our works of the flesh we earn him. We cant earn him. Whats the disconnect? I love him and i know he must love me. although I struggle to feel it, although I so want to feel it again. When I close my eyes and the words bounce arounf the cold dark empty walls of my head, i grow increasingly colder, increasingly farther, increasingly more angry and increasingly closer to giving up. Please help.
I love those three. Very beautiful.
Amen…….. ❤
that was supposed to make a heart 🙂