“15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “LEAVE
THE BOAT, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives. 17 RELEASE
all THE ANIMALS—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry
along the ground—SO THEY CAN BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY throughout the earth.” 18 So
Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. 19 And
all of the large and small animals and birds CAME OUT OF THE BOAT, PAIR BY PAIR.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals
and birds that had been approved for that purpose. 21 AND THE LORD WAS PLEASED with the aroma of the
sacrifice…
9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them,
“Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.”
There’s a time for everything in life! First a time of leaving
the things of this world, and enter in communion with THE LORD, mean business
with HIM, and we get saved! Praise GOD! After this, we start coming to church
to be trained in how to live this life as Christ Ambassadors; depending on our
hunger for God and our dedication to HIM, we’ll all go to train, the intensity
of this training might last more or less time. As we go into that training, our
lives will be transformed.
For Noah, the time to enter the boat past, then it was a time
of seclusion, a time of instruction, and this is the period Noah was coming out
of; though it must have been a difficult time! But it past too! And After 150 days,
exactly five months from the time
the flood began, I’m sure he was ready to release some of that pressure, ready
to let “fresh air” come in. But it wasn’t the time yet, and After another two and a half months, the
waters continued to go down. Probably he thought, “it’s been long time, LORD,
are we there yet?” I can imagine his face, when the time kept passing by, day
after day, in fact, After another
forty days past, and then Noah released a raven first, and a dove second, to
see if they would found a place to rest. Can you imagine Noah’s face every time
they kept returning to the boat? It must have been disheartening! Then After waiting another seven days, Noah
released the dove again… but the earth wasn’t quite ready yet. Then he waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it
did not come back. Genesis 8:13b-14 says “ten and a half months after
the flood began, the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth… Two
more months went by, and at last the earth was dry!”
Can you believe it? More than twelve
months, this man, Noah, was in training! I’m sure the training was for the
entire family as well, because as we live together, we all get affected by the
other ones are going thru.
Sometimes we THINK we are ready to go and conquer the world,
in our jobs, school, place of employment and even in ministry. How many times,
you’ve heard your teenager say after a time of discipline that they want to
grow up, to be out of the house? And you
end up telling them, “enjoy the ride now, because when you grow up, you’ll be
on your own and then things will be REALLY difficult!”
Can I tell you, that just like with Noah, GOD makes no
mistakes! HE KNOWS when we are not ready, and HE WILL NOT release us until the
perfect and appointed time to do so is completed. But then, as time had passed,
the time to LEAVE the boat, finally arrived! GRADUATION time!!!
The CHARGE GIVEN at the “graduation ceremony”, was simple:
·
LEAVE the BOAT
·
RELEASE all the ANIMALS
·
BE FRUITFUL and MULTIPLY
There’s a time for everything in life! Patiently endure the
time you’re in now, for the time will come for our release, it will be a
celebration time, graduation time, and it will come with a charge. Buckle up,
learn what you can when you can, at the same time you enjoy the ride. Because
there’s work to do in the Kingdom of God, and that’s what we are being trained
for. Did you notice? We are told twice here (Gen 8:17, 9:1) that we ought to
go, the second one is a confirmation of the first one; it’s about sharing what
we’ve learned, so we can multiply. That’s not too hard to understand, that’s
what we teach our kids so, they grow up, and when they get old, they can teach
their own kids. And after we instructed
them, thru elementary, middle and high school, graduation comes and that’s the
time you often hear people say, “Go make Papa proud!” It’s like “it’s over. Now
you’re on your own!” Why? Because the time of your released to do what you’ve
been trained had come. So, go!!!
Well, with us and our Heavenly Father, will be the same, I
can hear HIM as He says to me “go make Papa proud!” And when we make our Heavenly Father proud, THE
LORD will bless us, just like HE blessed Noah; IF like Noah, we value and endure
the instruction, seclusion, and training time; even if like him, we ask several
times “are we there yet?”
I MUST make clear that Graduation time DOES NOT MEAN that
you’ll LEAVE the Father’s way; ABSOLUTELY
NOT!!! We must NEVER leave God!!!
It means that now that you’ve become a DISCIPLE of God, a
learner of GOD’s word, you’ve graduated it, to start training other disciples.
THIS IS CARREER!!! A life-long process, that we will all go thru until we
graduate to heaven (die).
I’m praying for us, looking forward to our High
School/College GRADUATION day, when we’ll be released to do what GOD has called
us to do. Because HIS timing as well as everything
HE does IS perfect!
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