Did you see the report? "An hour outside of Amsterdam in Dordrecht, Netherlands, a ship is under construction. But this ain't your typical sailboat, bub. Johan Huibers is building a full-scale replica of Noah's ark.Yes, that Noah's ark. And Johan, an expert builder, isn't skimping on the details. The ship, which he's been constructing for the past three years, is built to biblical specs. Johan culled information on the ark's size and shape directly from the good book. In the end, the ship is four stories high and the length of a football field. And yes, it's seaworthy.
The result is an incredibly impressive ship, especially considering it was realized simply by a man with a dream--or, perhaps, a nightmare. Johan dreamt that Holland suffered a great flood. The next morning, he woke up determined to start preparing for that worst-case scenario."
Let's go back, way back, for just a moment to Genesis. The Bible says that God saw that human evil was out of control. People thought evil, imagined evil -- evil, evil, evil from morning to night. God was sorry that he had made the human race in the first place; it broke his heart.
Wonder how He feels today? Wonder if He even feels sending Jesus was worth it all? Is there anything going right? Unemployment figures? Check -- worse than expected. Housing sales? Check -- down, down, down and down again. Wars? Check. Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes? Check. Check. Check and check again.
But God, in the end, said this: "I'll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age, but I'll never again kill off everything living as I've just done."
Whew. Rainbows still glow. Peace can still reign. Maybe there's truly a Noah out there somewhere who can calm the beasts and bring us to safety. Maybe so.
No comments:
Post a Comment