Positioning Yourself for a Miracle, part 6

How would you respond if God asked you to do something stupid? Outlandish?  Make you look like a fool?  Make a public spectacle of yourself?  Would take many years to accomplish?  Would require all your available financial resources? Embarrass yourself and your family?  Had never been done before?  Could not understand it? How would you respond?

Consider Noah (see Genesis 6-9).  Noah was 500 years old when God spoke to him.  He didn't know what rain was because it had never rained before.  His instructions were precise, it would take an incredibly long time to complete them.  He had to use his own resources to make this happen. Was this really God giving him these instructions?  Noah's confession may have been -- I will do this, I can do this, nothing will keep me from doing this, God will help me, nothing is impossible with Him. 

How did Noah position himself for the miraculous when he and his household would be saved from the floodwaters that destroyed the whole earth?  Obedience, not just hearing the word but doing it.  Patience, taking the time to accomplish the mission.  Faith to believe that God said it, and that settled it.  Commitment and follow through, I will finish what I started no matter how much time it takes.

Will you allow Noah to be an example to you? Will you position yourself so that God can do for you exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think ... (see Ephesians 3:20)?