The flood symbolizes 3 things:
1. Evil
2. Chaos
3. Judgment

Matthew 7:5
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that sin your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when here is the lag in your won eye?

If you’re going to spend your time criticizing the world, you better make sure your own home is in perfect order.

It was Noah’s engagement with his calling to walk with God that ended up saving him and his family.

Matthew 6:32-33
For the Gentiles seek after these things, and your heavenly father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

English word “kingdom” makes us think of a country, but the Greek word used refers not so much to a realm as to a reign. A way of administering and arranging a society of people.

Lazarus had a life full of hard things but they might very well be the very things that lead him toward God.

“The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up your self, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” -C.S. Lewis

God’s not demanding perfection. He’s asking you to be 'All-In' on where he’s called you to go.

Matthew 6:34
“Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”

Worrying does not enable you to escape evil. It just makes you unable to cope with it.

What you build in this life is ultimately what you’re left to live in.