Most people know the Story of Noah. But in case you don’t it goes a little something like this:
The world had become so evil that God regretted creating mankind, so He decided to destroy it. But God found favor with one man, Noah, because he lived faithfully. God decided to spare Noah and his family. In order to spare Noah, God came to him and said, “I am going to destroy the whole world. So that you can your family can survive, I need you to build an arc that is big enough for every kind of animal to live in and every kind of plant for eating to be stored. Then I will it will rain (which has never happened before) and you and your family will live in the arc while everything else is destroyed. Got that?” And Noah did it.
To all of those ridiculous commands, Noah said, “Yes.” And it paid off in the end. He lived, mankind lived, and God promised him never to destroy the earth like that again.
In all honesty, I probably would have laughed if God told me that He needed me to build an ark my family from a phenomenon that had never occurred before. But Noah isn’t me and obviously he said yes.
But what if he didn’t say yes? What if Noah had said No to God’s ridiculous task?
The answer is quite simple – Everyone on the planet earth, every breathing thing on the planet earth, every plant on earth, would not exist. Everyone would have been destroyed in the flood.
God chose Noah because he was “blameless in his generation (CITE)” God picked Noah and Noah was the only person who could fulfill this mission for God. God had no plan B. God doesn’t have a plan B for anything because God’s plan is perfect.
So here is the thing, if Noah had said No, none of us would exist. So what happens if we say no to God?
There is this song by Josh Wilson that goes “Oh I refuse to/ sit around and wait for someone else/ to do what God has called me to do myself.” But with all due respect – There is NO-ONE ELSE who can do what God has called you to do yourself. There is no one else who can do what I am called to do, what you are called to do; just like there was no one else who could have done what Noah was called to do.
If Noah had said No, then all of mankind would have been wiped from the face of the earth.
So what then is the consequence if we tell God no? If we tell God no, what person won’t be in heaven with us? If we tell God no, what basic need is not being met for someone? If we tell God no, what are we missing out on? Because there is No-one else to do what we are called to do!
If you tell God no . . . what are the consequences?
