January 4, 2011 Crazy Obedience

Crazy Obedience
Read Genesis 4-6

Genesis 6:22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

LOOKING ahead, to picture our lives in the future—and even a year from now can be a bit scary. The future can even be more uncertain if you feel God is calling you to do something new and different. In fact, God can call us into something that is so new and different, it may even cause us to turn from God.
Do you think Noah was scared? Such an enormous task! Noah was 500 years old, and God told him to build an ark over 450 feet long! On this ark will be two of every living creature and 8 people--Noah’s family. It would have been easier to run away and tell God, “No!”
But where would he go? For the rest of his life, Noah would have been in a spiritual battle with God because he didn’t trust God’s command. That spiritual battle would have been much more difficult than building an ark. You can’t battle God and win. You may think you have escaped him, but it is he who will leave you if you say, “No, LORD.” And you lose your relationship with him.
Noah chose instead to be obedient and to have spiritual rest in God. He was unsure how he would complete the task. But he worked with God and learned to trust God for something very radical and different.
What is the task God has called you to do? I encourage you to begin your journey with him by taking some small steps. Noah had to pick up a hammer to begin. What do you have to pick up?


Pause and Consider: Where are your fears holding you back? What will you do with them?