Yesterday, I talked about Noah and how he waited for God to move. God told him that in seven days, it would rain for 40 days and nights. We have insight that Noah didn’t have when God shared with Noah how long it would be before He took action.
We know what rain is, whereas Noah did not have that knowledge then. It had never rained before the 40-day event. So, when God told Noah what He was preparing to do, there wasn’t a reference point for Noah to draw from. He wasn’t working with “Oh, that means this, that, and the other.” Noah just believed God when He said it would rain. It wasn’t necessary for him to know what rain was – he only knew he was ready for God’s move. He would understand in time.
Waiting on God sometimes means we will experience situations similar to Noah. We don’t have a blueprint to refer to in our situations, yet God assures us He will work.
Waiting for God to move requires faith that He has a solution that you and I don’t see or understand prior to His moving. We often are clueless about how things will work out, but our confidence must be in the fact that God is at the helm, and He will work it out. We don’t know how, and sometimes, we aren’t given a time frame like Noah, but whether He says in three days, 30 years, or doesn’t say when, we must hold on in faith that God will work. Our job is to wait in faith.
Whether He sends rain, a famine, or parts a sea – we still need to trust Him. We can’t peg God down with a “deliver us this way and when we say so.” God will work in a manner that we often aren’t expecting or even considering as an option.
Who would have thought that the Red Sea would part for the Israelites to walk over? Who would have thought that God would allow the Egpytians to drive their chariots hard after the Israelites into the same dry sea bed? Who would have thought that God would grant safe passage for His children and drown their enemies all in one mighty move?I don’t know how God will work in our needy situations, but I do know that as His Children, He hears our cries and understands our tears and fears. He has earmarked a date/time/season to move, and until that time, we must wait. Lord, help us to keep waiting in faith.
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. Genesis 2:5-6 (KJV)
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. Genesis 7:4-10 (KJV)
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. Hebrews 11:7 (KJV)
In the Master’s Service,
Author/Pastor Michele D Robertson
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Matthew 11:28-29 (KJV)