Today may be the day for you to leave the comfort zone that you have been in while the flood has been happening. You have been waiting not for the rain to stop nor for the waters to recede, not even to see dry ground. You have been waiting for the voice of God. The One who called you into the safety of the ark is the One who will call you out of it. There is a time to shelter and a time to move out.
“Then God said to Noah,’Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.” So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.” (Genesis 8 v 15-19)
Moving into the next season requires care and wisdom. When the ark door was opened, there wasn’t a stampede. Can you imagine if there had been? But they came out, ‘one kind after another’.
Whatever the order was, there was a sense of order.
If God is calling you into a new season, don’t rush into it. Take it one step at a time.
This next season will be new to you. Noah had never lived in this new world after the flood. Everything was transformed. Yet, the same creation command remained: multiply and increase. This is the mandate for your life: to let your life improve, grow, and succeed. All that you have discovered while in the place of safety, bring it with you. All that you protected, bring it with you.
You may have had dreams in that safe place. You may have developed new gifts. Above all, you may have changed and grown. The person you were before entering the ark of safety is not the same person coming out. God isn’t asking you to leave all these things behind. He is calling you to carry them with you and within you so you can flourish in this new season.
Maybe today you’re standing at the open door, feeling a little overwhelmed about what comes next. Let me tell you this: you take one step forward, and that’s enough. Move at your own pace, but keep moving forward. Soon, you’ll look back and see the joys of this new day.
Missions Paul 