Oh, how I want to be more like Noah.
God instructed him to build an ark but he never questioned WHY??
Scripture says, “Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.”
He waited over a 100 years for God to send the rain and yet he never doubted…he never questioned...he chose to walk in obedience to God’s calling.
Noah was a man who found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Oh, how I want to be more like Noah.
I have a lot of unanswered questions this week that I don’t understand. For over a year now, Michael and I have been seeking God’s direction about something and trying to walk in obedience to the doors we have seen Him open along the way.
This week we received an answer that is difficult to understand and I find myself asking, WHY?
Oh, how I want to be more like Noah.
It will be hard…it will require sacrifices…it is not what we had planned. And yet…the LORD is sovereign and my God is in control. His ways are better than my own and I must learn to trust…just like Noah.
I am learning more about dependence and surrender…more about letting go.
I fall short so often and find myself filled with fear, anger, and bitterness…not at God, but at the things of this world that are broken.
God is writing a bigger story…just as he was in the life of Noah. I don’t understand today, but in time the lens will sharpen and my heart will soften and I will understand more about how God is using this to shape me.
Oh, how I want to be more like Noah and walk in obedience to God’s calling…trusting Him enough not to question WHY?
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it’, when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.” Isaiah 30:20-21
I have read this verse over and over the past year and prayed that we would hear a word behind us saying…this is the way, walk in it.
The answer we heard this week is clear yet the road ahead feels so uncertain.
Lord, give me the strength to walk upstream knowing you will meet me there.
So grateful that I have an amazing husband who walks by my side through the disappointments and joys of this life.
2 comments:
Whenever I hear about Noah I think of the Jamie Soles song from "The Way My Story Goes." (My kids went through a phase where this was their favorite album. Now I occasionally put it on for myself.) I think it says, "Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, he believed."
In the days when the thoughts and intents of the hearts of man were only wicked all the time - God had mercy on Noah and gave him the grace to believe. Surely God gave him the grace to obey as well. Without Him it is impossible... but with God...
:)
May the Lord show you His grace in this situation.
A good point Ralph, but I believe people are going to have a hard time defending prejudice when the possibility of answering certain kinds of questions with much greater precision increases
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