A Painted Old Testament | With Ray Comfort, Ron Dicianni & Dave YaukSample

Noah

Noah, nearly 500 years old, heard the voice of God telling him to build a boat. Keep in mind that it had seldom rained on the earth at that point, and the size of the boat would require a lot more than a little time to build. Amid the sneering and jeering of those around him, we must ask ourselves,  “Did Noah get weary? Did he doubt? Did he feel like abandoning the project after, say, 95 years?” The Bible doesn’t say, but it must be assumed that he wrestled with a gamut of questions and emotions. 

Hebrews 11:7 says, “By faith, Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family.” Noah obviously knew the secret to success long before it was written one verse earlier in Hebrews 11:6: “Without faith it is impossible to please God …” 

When we ponder the massive scale of the task that Noah was asked to undertake, our puny trials take on a whole new perspective. If Noah could stand the jeers of those around him, maybe we can keep from buckling under the taunts of those who think we’re politically incorrect. We might even be able to hang in there when God speaks to us in a “still small voice”—asking from us something we perceive to be “ill-logical.”

No matter what Noah did or didn’t experience during that 120 year boat (and character) building project, imagine what he must have felt when the first raindrop fell. This is the moment to keep in mind when we get weary and tempted to give up. Keith Green summed it up well in a song that included Noah, when he paraphrased God’s command with “You just keep building that boat, it’s just a matter of time ‘til they see who’s gonna’ float.” The principle in Keith’s words lives on in you and I today. We will see who is gonna’ float …