Obedience

Tonight at church I learned how to be obedient, and why you should be obedient to your elders, and most importantly, God. There are some times in your life, I'm sure, when you have been given a task and you wondered why you had to do it because it wasn't going to benefit you in any way.

In the bible, Noah (you know, the one with the ark and the animals and stuff) was given a task by God. The task? Build the ark. Because Noah was very obedient to God and always did what He told him to do, Noah agreed to the task at hand. Now, let's think about this for a second. God told Noah that he has to build an ark, an ark that is three soccer fields long, for the rain that is about to come. But, the bible says that it has never rained before this time. So, Noah is told to build this ark (God tells him it will take 120 years to build) for the rain that is coming, and spend 120 years of his life building it, for something that he has never heard of or seen (the rain). Are we following?

What would you say to God if He asked you to do this? Oh, and I forgot to mention that Noah has to gather two of each animal to put on the ark. No big deal or anything.

Seriously, who would want to spend 120 years building an ark that is three soccer fields long for the "rain" that is coming soon? That would be hard to agree to. But Noah did it, he even hung in there when it rained for forty days and forty nights. What a trooper.

Think of a time you have disobeyed your parents commands and think of everything that happened when you didn't obey them. Didn't everything go wrong after you disobeyed? What happens when you do what you are told? Everything seems to go according to plan. Weird how that works out.

We have to obey God's commands and God will bless us.