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Forty Rainy Days

“Aslan, said Lucy, “you’re bigger.”

“That is because you are older, little one,” answered he.

“Not because you are?”

“I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.” ( Prince Caspian, by C.S. Lewis.)

I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. (God’s words to Noah, Gen. 6:18).

From, the moment that Noah heard God’s voice and purposed in his mind to obey, Noah grew larger in spirit. When he finished the ark and worked patiently to fill it with food and animals, Noah grew, and when he watched and waited forty days and forty nights while the rain poured down without an end in sight, but the words of God in his mind,he grew yet again. Noah, like Lucy, in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, was a child of God; in fact he was the only child of God in a hopelessly corrupted world when he began his adventure with his God. None of it was easy, but Noah ( and Lucy) grew into relying on God and walking in His way.

I have heard it said that “God will never love you any more than He loves you right now.” Whatever truth there may be in that, the Bible and life display a different experience for the children of God. Noah obeyed and talked with God through colossal experiences and was rewarded with a spirit of communion with his God, and an unbreakable covenant sealed with the rainbow.

As we grow in Christ, Christ grows in us. People who know the Lord grow in love, and find an ever larger supply of love waiting for them. Perhaps the supply does not “grow”, but the experience of the love indeed does.

More than two millennia after Noah watched forty rainy days, the apostle Peter wrote to fellow believers, You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praise of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light. (I Peter 2:9)

During Lent let’s wait with Noah doing God’s will in preparation for the wonderful light of Easter.

Love in Him,

Prue