Noah and Sam, Do you Listen but Think too Much?

Noah and Sam,

Do you Listen but Think too Much?

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Genesis 6:8 NRS

But Noah found favor
      in the sight of the Lord.

Recently, a friend named Jill made a comment about the Old Testament Noah,  and it began to cause me thoughts about, "What if Noah was second choice of God, and had talked to someone else before Noah, let's say his name was 'Sam' ".

Sam is fiction, but here, he is a lot like all of us.  This next paragraph is much about us.  We are not fiction, but very much like Sam sometimes.

Now, this Sam had to have been a good man if he found favor in the sight of God.  It was probably said that Sam lived in a way that was proper before God, did great things for God, raised his family as he should, and in God’s eyes, was just an all around just and right man before God.  So, God said to Sam, "Build me an Ark", and as recorded in Bill Cosby's monologue about Noah, Sam said "What's an Ark?"  After a discussion concerning the ark, Sam told God, "let me think about it.".  After a period of waiting for Sam's decision, God became impatient and chose Noah to build the Ark.  Noah did what God said with little hesitation and the rest is God’s History,  Sam, he listened to what God had to say but in his indecisiveness he missed the boat.

How often do we put off doing what God desires us to do, because we think too much.  I do and too often.  We can love God, but slowly think of many good reasonable reasons and rationalizations to do something else.  We sometimes subtly put ourselves above God desires for us and in our desires we stumble, and then wonder, “what happened?”.  But, through Jesus’ teaching we come to understand God is patient and has forbearance in the temporal world,  …as long as He allows us to be here.

Of course, doing what God desires for us is not a decision to take lightly.  We must pray for His guidance and ask Him to help us live in His Will.  In this, Jesus gave us the perfect example of what to say to end our prayers, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; yet, not my will but yours be done. ”  We cannot be indecisive about our relationship with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit; it is not a simple life-as-we-know-it decision, it is the eternal decision for our unending lives.

We should not… no we cannot be indecisive or reluctant in growing our relationship with Jesus, because we may become as Sam, and Sam, .... he missed the boat.

Jill finished her thoughts, “So, God was so sorry that He made mankind that he decided to destroy the creation that He made.  He saw one man though...Noah and because Noah was a good man and he loved and obeyed God and because of Noah we are here today serving God.”

Jill continued, “I want to be a NOAH!!!!!!  if God decided today to spare the universe because of one person...I want to be living a lifestyle so pleasing to God that He just smiles when he looks on my life...and I want Him to say "she is my Noah."

We all should follow Jill’s example and live to be God’s Noah.  Our present life and our Eternal Life depends on it…… Or we could be like Sam, and  ... miss the boat.

Praise God For His Patience for Our Lives

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SOMETIMES WE THINK TOO MUCH when we feel the call of God, the nudge of the Holy Spirit.  Our problem is we fail to respond for many reasons and miss great opportunities when we fail God.  Click for a thought on Sam.   Please share the message on your Fb page as you like, and if you like, click the FB 'Follow' button to have notifications of these publications.  For other messages like this, visit my FB page, or on FB visit-"A Daily Thought Group".

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