And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; —2 Peter 2:5
Just before my grandfather went to meet the Lord, he reached for and picked up the Bible of my father, who was a young pastor at the time. He wrote three words in it, “PREACH, PREACH, PREACH!” In other words, “Never back down, no surrender, no retreat. Never give them your back. Don’t turn and run. Stand firm and preach righteousness.”
Paul told the Galatian church in Galatians 6:9, “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” 2 Timothy 4:2 says, “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.” Now there is a word you don’t hear anymore, “doctrine” (Acts 2:42).
We discuss denomination but run from doctrine, when doctrine is what we should be adhering to instead of manmade rules, regulations, and divisions.
True enough, it is hard not to become weary in well-doing when it seems like so many are doing nothing, and mocking not only us, but God as well. Can you imagine Noah, for some hundred years, preaching to get others to get on board the ark, and yet when the rain came, they were caught completely off guard? It’s hard to raise your voice and spare not when so many are defiant. Paul begs the question to the Roman church in Romans 3:3, “For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?”
Noah never stopped, and in the saving of his family, he saved all of us, too. So today I pass along three words my grandfather passed onto my father, “PREACH, PREACH, PREACH!”
Our prayer for you this week: May you never grow weary in spreading the Good News of Jesus. Live it in spite of the reactions of those around you.
