"Bold Noah" The Chew vol 22-008, a Quill Organic Ministry.

Bold Noah

It’s funny how we think of someone who is bold or has done something bold as someone who’s daring or crazy! Either we admire them or call them nuts based on their actions.

If we are real for a moment, everyone (possibly Noah himself) thought he was crazy, nuts even! You and I more than likely would have joined the chorus of nay sayers at Noah’s project. Just being honest.

So how was Noah bold?

First, I believe he was bold for Creator God! He boldly set to work building the Ark.

Second, he was bold in the belief that God meant what He said—the rain was coming and God was bringing to them all the creatures to go into the Ark!

Third, he faced ongoing ridicule from friends, neighbors, and passers by!

Fourth, as I mentioned before—he would from time to time need to deal with his family’s questioning the sanity of the project and he’d need to help them get passed their own heartache related to the person attacks coming their way!

Fifth, his work was a daily witness to what he believed! That God, who he believed, was going to do exactly what he said.

Now, we didn’t read the full account. This is what we know for certain, Genesis 7:6, tells us that Noah was 600 years old when the flood came. Before he began building the Ark, his sons were grown and married. So, if we do a little subtraction, assuming the sons were roughly 20 to 30 years old when the project began; Noah and his family endured, what 50 to 75 years of labor for God and the ridicule of the world!

Talk about endurance. I suspect somewhere around the mid-way point of the build the thoughts of “will we ever finish this came banging on the door.

To remain true to God—Noah had to continually Seek God, remain Confident in God, and boldly continue until the work was complete!

Do we realize that the daily work of Noah and his family were an ongoing testimony to the people? Do we realize that conversations were taking place that were really an invitation to believe God was up to something and it was coming?

Think about this with me for a second—God again was going to make visible to all that was previously invisible.

I mean—it had never rained. God had never destroyed life. It was all coming and save Noah and his family; no one believed!

Noah’s boldness wasn’t in himself or his wife or his son’s and their wives; no Noah, bold Noah, was bold for God! Noah, is the first example of someone seeking God with confidence in God and willing to take action—bold action!

Do I see how Noah was “Bold Noah” for God?

Am I willing to be bold for God?

Am I bold for God with the confidence in God to take action as God gives?

What's the Holy Spirit saying to me right now, for today?

Am I choosing the Way of Jesus or am I choosing my own way?

Blessings & Peace,
Pastor Robert