By Prof. Ransford Gyampo
Genesis 8: 15 reads “Then God said to Noah, Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives”
Dearly beloved, as we walk with God, we must be patient and allow Him to take us through the processes.
Even when the signs are clear, we must still wait for Him to direct or speak to us. The story of Noah and the ark is a well-known one.
We all know how come he built the ark, who and what went in with him, and the fact that the Lord Himself shut door of the ark with a strong wind, and the floods came.
After the rains had stopped, it took a long time for the floods to recede and even when Noah could see that the land was completely dry, he waited for God to command him to move out of the ark before he did.
Let’s see the processes from Genesis 8:1-17 below:
We are told, at the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back to him because the floods were still there.
Then he sent out a dove but it also returned because it could find a place to perch due to the water over all the surface of the earth.
Noah then waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
But he waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
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.
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.”
Beloved, sorry for the long narration but this was aimed at pointing to how Noah had to be patient for the waters to recede.
Even after he saw the land was completely dry, he still waited for the Lord to instruct him to come out.
He who directed the ark to be built and shut its doors, must still have the final say. That’s how it should be for us who choose to walk with and work for the Lord.
When we walk and wait on the Lord patiently, we would succeed and not only that, we would have our strength renewed to mount up wings like eagles.
We shall run and won’t be weary; walk and not faint. As we wait, we shall happily dwell in the will and plan of God forever.
There is no better way to be safe than this. Patience is key in partnering with God.
He makes all things beautiful for us in His own time.
The Lord help our impatience.
Source: newsthemegh.com