God Remembers You
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
Genesis 8:1(NIV)

I am sure Noah built the ark wondering if his faith had been properly connected to God, since he was building when there had been no significant rain on the earth. I suppose he would have felt more greatly assured about it had he not been the only one building, but he was. He nonetheless followed his stirred faith, and he built the ark as God commanded.

The reward for him, I suspect, is when he shuts that door to the constructed ark, having collected his family and a male and female of every living thing on the earth, and he hears the release of the waters that had been held in the heavens. The water crashed to the earth for 40 straight days. Noah had to be deeply grateful to have been selected to be spared from and delivered to the other side of this flood.

I can imagine that Noah had to be anxious to see what life would look like post-flood. After 40 days, the flood waters finally stopped, and the entire creation was flooded. With every living being destroyed, the floating future of the entire earth was shut up in that ark, waiting to see what God would do. And for the next 150 days, the flood continued to cover the earth until, the text says, “God remembered Noah.”

God let the waters slowly recede, until eventually—after much waiting and wondering, prayer and petition—Noah and his family were able to come out of that ark and worship the Lord.

Are you in a time of waiting? A time of uncertainty and anxiety? Be comforted by the fact that God remembers you. You are not alone in this period of difficulty. You are not forgotten by the Lord. The very capsule that you feel so confined by may actually be buoying you up and bringing you to the place that you need to be in your life in order to begin a new season.

So do not despair. Your waiting will not be for always. God remembers you.