Noah and a Six Year Old's Belief

I love reading Bible stories to my six year old. We are currently on our fourth Bible together...graduating to a more challenging text each time. It is so much fun for him to remember a story that we've read before or actually read a new story that was not introduced in an easier Bible.

Tonight we read about God's promises and Noah. I asked him, 'does God always keep His promises? Is what God speaks always true?' I asked myself about my willingness to wait patiently for God's promises to be fulfilled in my own life. Noah had to wait for forty days and nights until the rain stopped and then several more weeks until there was land to occupy. How many times did Noah almost lose his patience with God? Did he question God's promises of safety and provision for he and his family along the journey? Noah was human and yet oh so righteous.

I pray for patience and of course then God requires me to wait. It's difficult to wait when God gives you a vision of something before it actually becomes real to us. The enemy comes along to tempt us into thinking the vision is not from God (doubt) or gets us thinking that God is taking too long and so we should 'help Him along' and make it happen ourselves (self-sufficiency). Just like Noah had to patiently build the ark - a vision God had given him that was not reality yet - God gives us visions that take time to take shape. Someday we'll be able to see a movie of our lives and all that was happening in the supernatural to make our visions, dreams and desires a reality to us.

Noah was human and there were probably moments of wavering and questioning. However, in the steady journey, Noah trusted God in the giving of the vision - the word that was spoken. Noah trusted God in the building of the vision - the precision and detail that was required. Noah trusted God in the valley where the vision was tested - his time of persecution from others and the character that God wanted him to attain. Noah also trusted God with and the final outcome - a place of glory and promises fulfilled.

In the simple words and a child's faith, tonight Davis ran his fingers over all the pages of his Bible and spoke, "Mom, ALL of this is TRUE."

Amen, dear boy. The promises of God are for you.