Kids Night was wild last night! The kids were full of energy as always and not really listening all that well! They turned the Dover Link Church into a zoo! I think they had fun though, but I will definitely be implementing a different discipline system. I've got some good ideas ready to go into effect this Sunday! I think it's going to be fun! Maybe I should take some lion taming classes before Sunday! lol!
One thing that is making it so difficult is the age range. Normally, we have from ages 6-13 . Last night, to make the age gap even more extreme, we had some new kids; 4-yr-old twins and three ages 17-19. We had them all in a circle playing hacky sack for a while (which they all seemed to like), then we split them all up into age-appropriate groups. We ate some pizza and played some games - it was fun!
All this talk about the zoo and animals reminds me of Noah's Ark. I've done just a bit of research on the ark; the fact that it could still exist is of interest to me. Explorers are still trying to find the ark, and they believe it to be somewhere on Mount Ararat or the Mount Cudi range in the country of Turkey. It's interesting to me to read some of the evidence they've found on it's possible existence.
What credibility it would bring to the Bible if they were to find it!
The Turkish government, however, isn't fond of explorers running around on their mountains, so that kind of makes any possible expeditions impossible right now. They believe that if the ark has been encased in ice for all these years that it would be somewhat preserved.
I've been thinking about Noah and his family and how crazy it must have seemed to them to build such a huge boat on dry land! It's most commonly believed (although the Bible doesn't say for sure) that it took Noah as long as 100 years to build it! That's hard for us to imagine, being faithful for so many years... to build such a thing when most of won't even live that long!
But I guess if you're looking for a lesson in faithfulness and patience, we could learn a thing or two from Noah. I read something one time that was thought provoking. It said that "perhaps the hardest part for Noah was the last 7 days before the rain began".
From the time God told Noah to go on the ark to the time it took for it to rain was 7 days. So Noah took his family and all the animals and lived on that boat for 7 days before they ever saw one drop of rain. I'm sure people told them how stupid they were. Where was the evidence of what God had promised? Not that they necessarily wanted the whole earth to flood, but after spending all that time building a huge boat to save them from a flood, I think they were ready to see some evidence of a flood!
Their work was done, and now they were waiting on God to do His work. Sometimes when we're in Noah's shoes, we've done our part, we've been faithful, and now we're waiting on God to move. That last little bit of waiting can be the hardest of all. The Bible says in Gen. 7:16 that the LORD shut him in. So here he was... his work all done, shut in this boat day after day... with no evidence of a flood. Scriptures tell us (Gen. 2:6) that there was a mist that went up from the ground instead of rain. So possibly in Noah's time, all those years of building the ark and talk of rain, no one had ever heard of rain let alone ever see it rain before. Maybe the thought of water coming from the sky was weird to them?
God is faithful to those who are faithful to Him. So when we've done our part, we just have to be patient enough to wait on Him - and He will do his part!
Does it feel like it's harder than it's ever been? .....keep on waiting, the end is soon!
Isa 40:31 -
"But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."
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