Thus Noah did

Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did. – Genesis 6v22

What a great little verse. Well, I know they are all great, but you know what I mean. Imagine Noah, all alone amongst men as the one who was upright and walked with God. God came to Noah with the news of his coming judgement and told him to build a massive ark to save his family and the animals of creation from the pending destruction.

What a task! Build a boat that is some 150 metres long, 15 metres wide, and 10 metres tall. Sure, no problem! This was one big boat, and we are not even sure anyone had ever seen a boat before. So what would you do?

Noah apparently had the answer – he did it. Simple enough, he did all that God told him to do. It took him 120 years, but he did it.

‘Doing it’ is a basic part of obeying God and pleasing him. We can learn and study and prepare and research and become the greatest Bible scholar in the world but if we don’t ‘do it’ we are wasting our time.

Just do it. A sports shoe company used that slogan a few years ago. Just do it. Witness to my neighbour? Do it. Take a stand for Christ at work? Do it. Go to an unchurched region and start a church from scratch? Do it. Live for Christ in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (like Noah did by the way)? Do it.

A friend posted the following on Facebook this morning. It was something that Noah knew and that if we remembered we could ‘do it’ as well.

‘The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.’

Noah knew that power. He walked with God. Perhaps if we learned to walk with God like Noah did we could learn how to ‘do it.’