Once again the inspiration for this post is to remind you you’re never too far along in life to get started in your ministry for the Lord.
Noah was also a man that wasn’t influenced by ridicule. He was building a boat for a flood and rain. It hadn’t rained yet on earth as far as we know.
Genesis 2:4-6 – 4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens- 5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground-
So a guy is building a humungous boat with no water nearby. Must have been quite a site? Who were his mockers? Men that we’re so evil that God came to the conclusion they needed to be wiped off the face of the earth.
Chuck Missler does a great study on the Nephilim talked about in Genesis 6:4.
Genesis 6:4 – 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
Son’s of God, Fallen Angels? Whatever they were, they were creating a super evil, super fallen race.
Noah stuck to his guns and built an Ark.
Genesis 6:15 – 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high.
Did he have any other help other than his sons? I suppose they could have paid some of them and they may have help, but they didn’t get a ride when the waters came. I have a feeling had anyone volunteered to help build it for free; God would have rewarded that kind of faith. So I’m going to say Noah and his family were the ones who built on it without being paid, if they had help at all.
We know the rest of the story. The floodwaters came and only Noah, his family, and the animals on the ark survived.
At 500 years old Noah began the peak of his ministry. If you’re not 500 yet, you’re starting before Noah.
All kidding aside, Noah walked with God a long time before this and on a violent and evil man covered earth. His obedience allowed mankind to continue on from that point till now. Pretty important ministry?
You have a ministry to serve God! Everyone has a ministry to serve God! It won’t fail if you earnestly seek God and it’s 100 percent for the Kingdom of God. All you have to do is continue to prepare and say, “Here I am Lord, use me.”
Would you rather stand in front of Him knowing you did what you could, or do you want to continue to spend time on yourself?
If you doing it all for yourself then you will have wood, stubble, and hay to present to the Lord. Nothing left of that when it gets tested by fire.
1 Corinthians 3:12-15 – 12If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man’s work. 14If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.