Be Upright Like Noah and Save Your World

February 16, 2021

From today’s reading…

But Noah won Yahweh’s favour. Yahweh said to Noah, ‘Go aboard the ark, you and all your household, for you alone of your contemporaries do I see before me as an upright man.” Genesis 6:8, 7:1

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote The Gulag Archipelago, which described his eight years in Siberian labor camps then internal exile for the heinous crime of…criticizing Josef Stalin in a private letter.

His efforts almost simultaneously led to the demise and fall of the Soviet Union because he was not afraid to speak the truth and accept personal blame for contributing to the lies of Communism.

Some of his more famous quotes include:

  • The battle-line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

  • Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

  • For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Solzhenitsyn lived what Noah experienced, namely, one good man who tells the truth can bring down—and raise up—a nation, and even the world. So be good. Tell the truth. Read Genesis, then read Solzhenitsyn.

But as you do so, clean your room, keep your house in order, tell the truth, and lead by example, which is the only way to…

Stay the course.Keep the faith.Endure.

Now go sell something.