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Discipleship Focus: Obedience
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from Father.
What can
we say about Noah other than he is an extraordinarily obedient man. God tells him to build a super-huge ark and
he does. I don’t think I can imagine the
effort put into that process. Remember,
it’s not like there was a Home Depot just down the street. The lumber needed to be felled and then cut. The nails and wooden pegs needed to be
fashioned. The pitch for waterproofing
had to be found, made, refined, then applied.
I can’t imagine how much effort that project took and how obedient Noah
was to God’s plan.
Furthermore,
the animals needed to be gathered. They
had to be controlled. Supplies needed to
be found for all the animals. What an
undertaking that had to have been.
Not to
mention that his family still had to be managed. Sure, Noah’s sons helped along the way. But I can’t imagine everything was
roses. I’m sure there were days when
Noah’s sons were tired, frustrated, cranky, irritable, or sore. Yet, through all of this, Noah’s primary
characteristic is his obedience. Noah
saw God’s direction and obeyed.
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