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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