Right now I am having to trust God like never before. As my coach, God has been conditioning me to trust him and work the fundamentals. He has me reading his promises and believing them. I’m been reciting and meditating on them over and over. Such things like He will never leave nor forsake me. He will provide a path. He chose me. He forgives me. He wants me to have peace in him. He loves me as his child.
I know the drill. He’s there. So then why am I so fearful that this one time he won’t come through? Oh me of little faith!
Talk about crazy. John Hulber of the Netherlands actually built a replica.
I am reading through the bible again this year and as such, I’m now in Genesis and so I am reading about the ark. Man, God laid everything out for Noah from size, weight, materials and content. He gave him the exact blueprints on how to build it. He even gave him the vision for it. All Noah had to do was believe it and follow it. Trust him. Be obedient. And I know that’s what God want each of us to do too. Trust his blueprints in our life.
Take Noah for example, he had no idea, if the world would think he was a crazy, but he didn’t care about the outcome. He did not doubt – but he followed God’s word.
12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. 16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him. Gen. 6:12-22
I’m in the same exact position right now. God is laying out for me a path for my life which is contrary to the world’s. It’s unconventional and so that makes it a bit scary for me at the moment. But, he knows what my blueprint is and to him it’s not scary…it’s beautiful. It’s what I was made for. I just need to build his vision and believe. If I follow his way, even when the floods come, I’ll be sailing above the water not under it. And there’s no place else I’d rather be.
If this is your prayer too, I will stand with you. Let’s follow God’s path and share in this adventure that He has created for each one of us.
Is there any barrier we can’t overcome?
