John 13:7, New International Version

“Jesus replied, ‘You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.’”

Do you like waiting? O no! I don’t think so! Sometimes, you may even feel like you are stuck. I remember how much I liked (and I still do) working in a place that I can see outside, under the sun or see the lights of the city on. When I was in a place where I couldn’t see out like that it would make me feel like I was stuck in a box and the walls were keeping me in, almost to the point where it felt like I couldn’t breathe. Can you relate to this? Have you wondered how long it will be until God will bring a breakthrough into your life? I would like to invite you to take a breath, hang out with me, and pay attention to what Noah went through.

“The Lord then said to Noah, ‘Go into the ark, you and your whole family… Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.’” (Genesis 7:1, 4, NIV)

“On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark … as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.” (Genesis 7:11, 16, NIV)

“For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. … Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.” (Genesis 7:17, 21, NIV)

Noah was waiting for God’s promises to come, to have a new life, to be rescued. While waiting, he was stuck behind a door. He couldn’t see or know what was going on outside. He could only guess. Maybe he thought, “This is bad… there will be nothing left.” Does that describe some of the moments of your life? If your answer is yes, then let us not stop there but continue reading the rest of the event together…

“But God remembered Noah…” (Genesis 8:1, NIV)

“By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.” (Genesis 8:13-14, NIV)

“Then God said to Noah, ‘Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.’” (Genesis 8:15-17, NIV)

God knows, and He is good! He remembers His servants! We may not know everything and what is going on throughout life, but it is okay, because God knows! He will come for you!