Noah standing in awe of God
- Hye Jin Choi
- Oct 19, 2023
- 2 min read
During the service on Sunday, our laptop turned off because the battery completley discharged. So I got fairly distracted in the middle of the message as I also should think about how to present the next song.... Nevertheless, I was able to meditate on the message during the week, and it came to my mind that it was a pretty refreshing and remarkable perspective. Although I have read this part in Genesis more than multiple times, I've never thought of Noah this way or how he would have felt about God. The message was about the altar that Noah has built up after he got out of the ark. Elder Joeng said that Noah must have come to God in AWE, because what he has experienced through the journey was quite spectacular and even fearful - all the humans except his family have died! He witnessed everything that has happened from the beginning - how God has initiated and how He accomplished, how God gracefully and mercifully saved Noah's family through the water. There is no description in the scripture about how Noah responded to God when first stepped out of the ark, it would be similar to what Job has confessed to God after he met God, "I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. (Job 42:2)". Noah's reponse was shown as an altar, and his honoring and worshipping God. Noah has experienced the whole God. Experiencing God may have a variety of levels, as how a blind man would learn about an elephant by touching it. Not only touching, if he would ride on it and let it run through the grass savanna, he would feel much more different level than others. I still like small things that I can experience God through - close and intimate relationship. He has evidenced that He heard my whispers and my crys, or my unspoken wishes in the bottom of my heart. He reads my thoughts and questions, and he knows my feelings. Sometimes, it makes me exclaim "God, you are so sweet! I love you God". I hope experiencing God and worshipping God to be closely connecting to each other into a cycle that would grow year after year.