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NOAH GET IN THE ARK
When God gives us a job to do, he gives us the means
to do it as well. That’s not to say that the job
will be easy. I have to wonder if all the
circumstances in Noah’s life ever made him think
twice about his project. Did he ever just want to
hang up his hammer? I mean he faced a lot of
sarcastic remarks for a long time. Noah believed
alone, and he preached on though no one followed
him. He stood alone with an unstoppable faith.
Where would you stand to have your faith pulled to
pieces, and held up to ridicule. He preached for
one hundred and twenty years, and not one person was
ready to follow him into the ark, only his own
family and no one else. What a trial! Many were
called but only eight would come.
That Ark would float; he knew it would. He was
sure the world would be flooded as if he had already
seen it. “Things not seen yet” were to his faith
evident. How is your faith today? Could you keep
on believing in something unseen to you for one
hundred twenty years? We can hardly believe for one
hundred twenty minutes at times let alone years. Do
you have the kind of faith that will keep on
believing when all you see are the circumstances?
Are you resting in the promise of a faithful God?
Without faith, it’s impossible to please him.
Faith is what we most need. In Noah’s case he
received a promise; he listened to the terrible
threatening that God would destroy all living things
with a flood; his faith believed both the warning
and the promise. By faith Noah moved with fear and
prepared an ark. He believed what to him seemed to
be the impossible. The faith that believes in the
probable is anyone’s faith; but faith that believes
in something which is barely possible rests alone in
the word of God; for with God all things are
possible. That is why Noah believed he could build
a ship on dry land and be certain it would one day
float on water.
We need to learn to believe what we cannot
altogether comprehend, and expect what we could have
never have looked for. It should be our ambition to
be great believers and not just thinkers; to have
that child-like faith that says we are sure God is
true. What he has spoken he is able to make good;
and none of his words will fall to the ground.
Noah knew no one could save him but God, the last
thing Noah earned by his faith was he became heir of
the righteous, not by his works but by his faith.
He believed God and found grace in the eyes of the
Lord and received righteousness which God gives
through Jesus Christ to all who believe. He was
secure in the ark which began with his faith. Are
you secure in the ark today?
Are all the circumstances in your life shouting the
impossible? Are you thinking twice about a project?
Get in the ark Noah, look beyond the things you see
and look to God instead. Be confident in the things
not seen yet and hope for all that is going to
happen. Respond to God in faith and don’t lose the
opportunity for his blessing. When the waters rise
trust him to get you through. Keep your eyes on the
things to come after the flood.
Noah took a risk and built an ark on his faith and
his obedience to God. Will you trust God with all
your heart and not lean on your own understanding?
Look to him and he will direct your path.
- Julie
Julie Leon lives in the Kansas
City area with her husband Scott and their four
children.
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