Ark building

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Genesis 6:8

Building an ark of praise

To listen and obey the Word of God, is in itself a form of praise.

The Lord spoke and Noah listened.

It took Noah 100 years to build the ark.

100 years of Praise, every day, without fail.. despite ridicule; with a determination that would land this man of faith into the Holy, God breathed Scriptures of the Bible.

We see the cartoon images of Noah and his family and the animals on nursery and Sunday school walls.

And it’s a great reminder of that terrible and mighty day that showed the sovereignty of God. His judgment and His mercy.

To listen and read and love and live the Word of the Lord is our modern day version of ark building.

It is daily praise to read His word. To spend time building a relationship with the our heavenly Father.

A few times a week we gather in a building with other ark builders and we call it church.

We sing our songs of worship and we listen to the anointed Word from the pastor and we take our rest in the Lord.

It’s our quiet time.

It’s another form of praise other than the physical day by day building of our ark.

What did the ark do?

It saved his family.

It kept them safe from the flood.

It kept the animals alive; a promise and a future.

There is a flood coming in the future of the likes we have never seen before.

An uncertain economy, drugs and immorality abound, the grey areas are getting wider and we see the ominous clouds of an contrary wind coming our way. Everything we’ve ever known is going to be lost in a tidal wave of change.

And we continue to build our ark of praise.

Our ark of praise  will do for us what Noah’s ark did for him.

It will save our families, it will save us, it will save our future and we can ride out the storm and go where the Lord leads us.