Odd One Out

For the last 10 years, each Friday morning at 6am except in the school holidays, I meet with 4 friends. We share our interesting experiences from the week and what we've been thinking and studying about from the Bible. Sometimes we have breakfast that's my favourite, we should do that more often! Having 4 others to balance my thinking helps me stay on the main road. It's a journey we have been on together and we never stop learning from each other. It's not always easy especially on the coldest days of Winter. And we don't always agree but we all find it too important to stop. 

Of course if it wasn't also fun we would have driven each other crazy by now. All the other guys want to see the new movie Noah, except for me. I'm the Odd One Out. I read a little bit about the movie and I got put off, if it's just fantasy compared to the Genesis story I'm not interested. I know what you are thinking. I need to wait until I've seen it. Probably you are right, I will wait for my friends review because I trust them : ) To me this story is one of the most important in the Bible. It is as prophetic as it is historical.

Jesus referred to the World being "as it was in the days of Noah" when he would return so it is very important for us to pay attention to the warning since there is a future catastrophe coming that we can escape from.

God has provided the Way Out, he wants us to take it. In the story God gives Mankind 120 years to fix their ways. God is very patient but Judgement comes because the people refuse to listen. Like any good Hollywood End of the World movie, everyone perishes in the Flood except for Noah and his family. Noah built an Ark to escape. Jesus is our Ark.

It's a safe bet to assume the people laughed at Noah and thought he was crazy right up to the terrifying moment the waters burst from the deep and the heavy rain came down. Have a look around you. Does the World look anything like "the days of Noah" to you? 

You will be called crazy for believing Jesus' message. Will you have the courage to be the Odd One Out?