Waiting. It can be challenging to wait when you feel like you should be doing something. But waiting is doing something. It’s the season when the Lord speaks to your heart and tells you to sit tight. He will give the next series of instructions when it’s time. Until then, wait.
That’s what Noah’s situation looked like after building the ark, loading the animals, and gathering food for the animals, himself, and his family. God told him to go into the ark, and after seven days, it would rain. So he followed the instructions. God shut the door behind them, and the waiting began.
For seven days, nothing happened outside, and I can imagine the heckling outside the ark. There was nothing else for him to do but wait on God. He’d done everything he was supposed to do. The last leg of the season of obedience for Noah and his family was to wait for God to move.
It’s beautiful when you can say you’ve done everything God told you to do, and now you are in the season of waiting for Him. The job now consists of waiting for Him to fulfill His Word.
For Noah, he had to wait seven days. Noah wasn’t required to do anything while in waiting mode after God shut him in the ark. He was right where God told him to be and in that place he waited.
This is just a friendly reminder that God didn’t forget that you are waiting for Him to move. Your job now is to wait on Him. Lord, help us to do our job of patiently waiting on You to move.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of GOd, ye might receive the promise. Hebrews 10:36 (KJV)
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.4 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.11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 7:1-12 (KJV)
5 I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. 6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. Psalm 130:5-6 (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)