Waiting

Posted on July 19th, 2023 by Redeemed

Genesis 8:15-16 CEV

God said to Noah, [16] "You, your wife, your sons, and your daughters-in-law may now leave the boat.

 

There will come a time or season in our lives that we find ourselves completely out of control and unable to do anything about our situations or circumstances. At such moments we become so anxious that we fidget, get ourselves worked up, busy with all manner of works or activities just because we don’t know what else to do as we wait on the Lord to act on our behalf.

 

As I study the events preceding and post the flood and how Noah and his family, the clean and unclean animals were spared. I marvel at the similarities of how humans handle the waiting season. For forty days and forty nights the fountains of the deep were opened, and the rain fell continuously on the earth.

 

Genesis 7:11-12 AMPC

In the year 600 of Noah's life, in the seventeenth day of the second month, that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and burst forth, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened. [12] And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

 

God had told Noah that He was going to destroy every living thing in whom is the breath of life because the wickedness on the surface of the earth was great. So great was evil on the earth that God said He was sorry for creating man, for their thoughts continually was evil.

 

Genesis 6:5-6 AMPC

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination and intention of all human thinking was only evil continually. [6] And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved at heart.

 

Though all flesh had corrupted themselves but there was one man who found favour with God. The Lord said of Noah that He was pleased with him so God confided in him of His plan to destroy the world. The Lord asked him to build an Ark and gave him specifics about the dimensions, and structural makeup of the Ark.

Noah finally finished building the Ark and the Lord ensured that Noah and his family and the animals were secured in the Ark and behold the rain started as God had told Noah.

For forty days and night it rained like never before. Everything that has the breath of life died. At the end of the fortieth day the rain stopped, and then started the waiting game for Noah, his family and all the animals under his care.

I can see in my mind’s eye how they began to become restless, not sure what to do with the time at hand.

Has God promised you something and you are wondering because it’s taking time for it’s fulfilment if you actually heard right. You are worried and begin to involve yourself in all manner of things because you don’t know what else to do whilst you wait.

While Noah was worrying about if the water has receded or not, God was working to have Noah and everything in the boat released back to their normal but better living condition.

 

Genesis 8:1-3 CEV

God did not forget about Noah and the animals with him in the boat. So God made a wind blow, and the water started going down. [2] God stopped up the places where the water had been gushing out from under the earth. He also closed up the sky, and the rain stopped. [3] For one hundred fifty days the water slowly went down.

 

He commanded the wind to blow over the water, closed the fountains of the deep and shut up the sky so the water can dry up. God knows how to restore things, all we need do is allow Him and trust Him. There is a process and a time for everything.

Noah sent out a dove, not once but thrice, and at the third time the dove did not return to Noah.

 

Noah was six hundred when he, his family and the animals entered the Ark and at his six hundred and one year the water had completely dried from the earth. He even made an opening at the roof of the Ark to see if the earth was completely dry!

As I study the account of Noah’s busyness, I completely relate with his struggles to just be still and allow God do what only He can do. If only we can just find it in us to rest whilst God is working out things for us, we would be at peace but alas, like Noah, many of us don’t know how to handle rest and quietness, we would rather be busy even when we know nothing will come out of our busyness, it is better for us we convince ourselves to be busy than be still!

 

When the earth was completely dry and it was time for Noah and all that was with him in the boat to come out, God spoke!

 

Genesis 8:15-17 CEV

God said to Noah, [16] "You, your wife, your sons, and your daughters-in-law may now leave the boat. [17] Let out the birds, animals, and reptiles, so they can mate and live all over the earth."

 

Oh the wonders of God!

He knows what we are going through and is working to restore us and bring order to our lives. If only we would just rest whilst He does His work. Indeed, God is love and His plans for us are good not evil. He will give us an expected end. The earth and all that is in it belongs to Him and He said He will give it to whomever He pleases.

No matter what life throws at us let us have this confidence that God is always in control and will not do us harm but good, for He is a good God!

 

God bless.

Peace!

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