Rest in Christ Your Ark

"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat." (Genesis 8: 4)

"17"is the number of "Victory", and "8" is the number of New Beginnings.

Noah -- whose name means "Rest", found grace in God's eyes (Genesis 6: 8). The grace of God is always associated with rest, the rest that God gives to those who believe on Him and His Son whom He sent to die for our sins (John 6: 29)

The ark which bore Noah and his family through the flood is a picture of Jesus, in whom we have protection from God's holy wrath:

"Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

"The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

"Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him." (1 Peter 3: 20-22)

The victory that we have in Christ Jesus is greater than being saved from the global floods:

"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

"Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8: 37-39)

We cannot be separate from Christ because He is in us (Colossians 1: 27) and we are hid in Him (Colossians 3: 3)

In fact, God sees us as one with His Son, that John could write:

"As He is, so are we in this world!" (1 John 4: 17)

The more that we rest in Christ our ark, the more that we rise above every difficulty and reign in life through His life! (Romans 5: 17)