Here I am sitting at the computer and I’m thinking, “I’ve looked at a thousand of these and writing just one is not an easy task.” My beautiful wife and I created a blog a while back, and while we were both supposed to blog, she has been the 0ne to be the primary blogger. She does a great job. So, why create my own blog when I am so unaccustomed to this kind of thing and my wife already is an expert blogger. I don’t have a real great answer for that, except that there have been some major changes in my life lately…a lot of new. We are moving to a new city, Seattle. We are starting a new ministry, Home Missions. We will be living in new housing. We will become new people in a great metroplex. New challenges, New faces, New thoughts… All of this has got my brain a-thinking. Sometimes all the new causes overload. So, all this overload has caused me to create an outlet for my own thoughts. If reading this does nothing for you, that’s okay. It’s really helping me. I felt the need to put my thoughts down so I, so you, and anyone else interested can read this and get a little insight into life. Also, with all this new, I wanted to provide an outlet to let people in on our new adventures, let them know what’s happening in our new city, what new things God is doing. My wife will continue to blog about our family. If your interested, this is where I will post our thoughts, feelings, worries, and triumphs.
So, what new thought will I post today? It’s very simple, really. So simple that you probably overlooked it in the one-million times you’ve heard the story. Noah built an ark. God said it would rain and rain and then the whole earth would flood. There would be no land anywhere for anyone to stand on. Anyone not on a floating vessel was going to drown. So, God did a new thing, he made the earth flood. Noah did a new thing, he built an ark. Neither had been done before. You already know about the animals and the rainbow and how Noah’s family was saved. Maybe you already thought of this. Perhaps I’m the last one to think of this. Here it is anyway. Why didn’t anyone else have a boat? Were there no other boats anywhere for anyone to use so they wouldn’t drown when they ran out of land? Now, I’m sure you history buffs can readily answer my question. But, I’m no history buff. So, I want to know why, when something so simple as a boat could have saved their life, did they not have one? Did boats not exist at this time in their life? Another question for the history buffs. Everyone drowned except Noah and his family. The solution was easy, get onto a floating vessel. Noah had one. They had plenty of time to build one, 120 years to be exact. Maybe God was giving mankind an opportunity to save themselves. Either get on Noah’s ark, or build one yourselves. They did neither. They could have built one. It didn’t have to be as big as Noah’s, just a simple floating vessel was all that was required. This isn’t rocket science. So, why was it so hard?
I don’t really have an answer for that one. But, I do have a simple thought on the matter. God does new things constantly. Starting a church is not a new thing. Starting a church in Seattle isn’t a new thing, either. But, it’s new to me and Sheree and our two girls, Alyssa and Alivia. So, when God does something new, are you prepared to launch out onto faith. When you’ve never even heard of a boat, it takes faith to step onto one. But, if it’s going to flood, it might be time to take a step of faith. God is doing something new in us. God is doing something new in Seattle. So, I guess it’s time to prepare for a flood.
