  I opened up my bible this morning to Genesis chapter 6, where it tells the story of noah. I am amazed at the amount of faith that noah had in god. god came to noah and told him that he was going to destroy all the living creatures on the earth because it had become corrupt and filled with violence. but because of noah being the only righteous and blameless man on the earth at the time, he and his family were spared. god told noah to build this huge vessel...450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high!! WOW!! now, it doesn't say in the bible how long it took noah to build the ark, (people have speculated that it had taken noah over 100 years to build it) or how old he was when god first approached him. it does say that noah was 600 years old when the flood happened! can you imagine that? Noah had so much faith in god, that when god told him to build the ark because he was going to destroy the earth, noah said, okay god...and he started building the ark.
and people came to noah all through that time and made fun of him for building such a huge vessel, and when noah told them that god was going to destroy the earth, the people just laughed at him..but still, noah's faith never wavered one inch..he kept on building the ark, because he knew that one day the rains would come and wipe out every living creature on the earth, save for noah, his family and whatever animals were on the ark.
after the flood was over and the waters receded, god blessed noah and his sons and told them to multiply and fill the earth. noah lived another 350 years after the flood. that means he was 950 years old when he died! amazing, isn't it? I don't know if i would be able to do what noah did. i don't if i would have the faith that noah had to do what he did for the lord..the word does say, walk by faith, and not by sight.
dear jesus, please help me build my faith..i want to be so excited when i talk about you, and i'm not, and for that i am ashamed because you have done so much for me and i don't deserve it. but with your grace, please help me to understand all the thoughts i have, and all the feelings i have because i don't want them to distract from what you have in store for me 
