NOAH

So here I am wondering what to type. I’m here wondering what to say to my faithful readers, what tale to tell you all after capturing you with the awesome words I’ve written in times past. I’ld like to run away from the promise I made on Tuesday but I’ve been listening to some talks on integrity, so I’ll keep my word.

The first is to show you the picture of the make-up Ayo did for her cousin. Then the next is to give you the second post I promised to give you, next time please......

This is not one of the moments when I have a lot to say and when I would like to be chatty but a time when I wanna take things calm and serious to reflect on stuff. Many people don’t get to see my reflecting side but that’s the side that has accomplished a lot and much more. Now I’ld enjoin you to read on cos I know God’s gonna speak right now, I feel Him strongly behind me.

So my reflective side is kinda scared.

I listened to Kore’s album Noah and I wondered why he titled it Noah, that’s not why I’m scared. I listened to almost all the tracks hoping there’ld be an on point song about Noah in there but there wasn’t, there was a love song, some slow tracks, an acapella-ish track, even a fast beat track but ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about Noah.   

Then it hit me, the album is NOT about Noah! It’s about Noah’s message to the world, pardon me, it’s God’s Noah’s message to the world, cos Hollywood’s Noah-message, *scoffs* is messed up. 

Now I'm scared because the whole content of the album was about life and all, even love before Jesus comes and like Kenny Kore sang, 'I'ld be strumming on my guitar with the moon on my back, strumming on my guitar till my savior comes back'

 

God’s Noah’s message is God telling about 

His pain and anger at man’s sinful unfaithfulness

His amazing character of mercy for the human race,

His generous mercy and some-what desperate desire for a remedy for man’s sin translated in the selection of one man to save all who were willing.

holiness as a guarantee for salvation,

man’s willingness to repent as the only action he (man) has to take to be spared from God’s wrath,

God’s willingness to give new life to the spared few.

His amazing desire and ability to forgive and restore all,

even a righteous ‘prodigal’ 

It’s the story about the very character of God. The precision with which He takes Noah through the building of the great ark that couldn’t be sunk by the great Genesis 7 and 8 flood. It speaks about God’s care for everything He created down to the lowest animal, probably the snails but I think snails too survive in water iono okay, let’s go with emmm…chicken, a hen or fowl, there were birds on the ark too now, so we’ll go with birds. It talks about God ensuring protection not just for man but for the animals as well. It talks about God’s love for His creation and His desire to ensure continuity even after everything was broken. It shows God wants to be active at every point in every project of man’s, even architecture and building. It speaks about the love of God and honesty, He didn’t send the flood before the ark was ready but exactly when it was ready. He protected Noah and His family in the flood, I’m sure He held the little ones (if there were any) at night when they were scared and when they thought the flood was gonna break into the ark and kill them too.

It’s the very character of God, a somewhat replica of the story of Jesus, my Saviour, the very reason He died.

Hollywood’s portrayal of the Noah’s story totally blasphemed God, they showed God as a mute God, gave Noah (mere man) the entire credit for initiating and designing the idea of an ark in which the people would be saved. Noah was a tyrant, he was inconsiderate, selfish in his ‘selflessness’, he lacked human sympathy, he was devoid of an understanding of God’s big plan, moved by emotions and entirely deserving of every ill treatment he got.

I won’t waste a lot of time talking about Hollywood’s Noah it’s annoying to think about.

Pheeww…Jackie Hill Perry, a spoken word artist at p4cm, posted a vlog titled “When did we stop talking about Jesus in church” I was intrigued and decided to download. I watched and realized that she had observed correctly, we have stopped talking about Jesus in the church. Many scholars and preachers of God’s word have brought to our understanding that the whole Bible is written to point to Jesus, even Jesus, quoting a part of the old testament said “the scriptures testify of me” but we have stopped testifying of Jesus and that’s what Noah was doing, pointing to a God people had stopped believing in and saying He was gonna do stuff people had given up hope on.

A few days ago, my mum and I were trying to pick a song for choir special. I don’t have choir songs, I have only rap, hip hop, fuji, and other young people Christian songs so it was kinda hard choosing a suitable song. While scrolling through my computer, I remembered Nathan Flo so I opened the folder and I clicked on Idinma. The song played for a while and I was seriously feeling it until my mum raised her finger and said ‘eh en’ I was like ‘Ah an, you don’t like it?’ and she said ‘the song is okay but it is thanksgiving Sunday, that crucified ehn….eh’. My brother, who was reading lifted up his head from his books and said ‘Mummy it is because of that crucified that we are able to have a thanksgiving, if Jesus hadn’t died, we wouldn’t have a thanksgiving’ and I agreed totally, of course she didn’t and with good reason because we should thank God for all He’s done, got a rhema on that a few days ago, ama share later.

Bringing it home, I’m not saying we shouldn’t sing danceable praise songs on thanksgiving. Saying that will be very ironical considering my love for music, especially the praise kind of music but it’s extremely important that we point everyone to Jesus in whatever we do, even when we praise like crazy.

Timilehin Adigun, founder and coordinator of MINE teens ministry and pastor of The Ark (A church strictly for teens) would almost always say during Bible study “I can never be sick!” and whenever he says it, he’ll add that he knows that some people would be saying in their hearts ‘ha! Uncle Timi don’t talk this way before they will come and hit you’ lol! (Whoever they is) he however doesn’t mind because God is his protector and health, something like that. In that way, he is pointing to God’s healing power, focusing his healthiness not on the good food he eats but on God, being a Noah in his own sphere.

Speaking of sphere, he’s also a Noah in leading many teens to Christ. Abandoning the law of sin, death and condemnation, he guides many teens to righteousness in Christ. This is not a post to praise man at all, I won’t do that but his taking up the post of a Noah to the teens has brought a lot of teens out of many addictions and put them on God’s path to fulfil His plan for them. I am a product of his ministry and well I’m glad I met him.

See, Noahs are people that stand to point and tell about the story of salvation and are the willing instruments of salvation.

Noahs are not cowards who shy away from every opportunity of manifesting Christ in all they do, they are bold,

they are not bothered about what everyone else is doing,

who laughs at them and who doesn’t,

they just stick to what the One who sent them has commanded them to do.

Noahs are detailed, precept upon precept, line upon line.

They are teachable, they are controllable.

They have a mind of their own but this mind is subject to the God who sent them.

Noahs don’t really care if they look like crazy people to the rest of the world, they are not bothered about whether they are being laughed at or not.

And Like Evan Almighty (another Hollywood Noah’s production, they tried in this one) and most importantly, they are ready when the floods come.

I want to be a pointer to the one and only God in everything I do,

in all I say,

in what I think about,

in my actions and inactions,

I want to be an example of God’s salvation,

a model,

I want to be a savior,

I want to be a Jesus,

*Drops mic*

Thank you

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Rhemz PKay.