The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Sbe Doliest of ail 433
CI.
NOAH-THE WORK OF FAITH.
XI.
7. By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen
as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house ;
through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness
which is according to faith.
IN Abel we see how faith makes death the path to life. In
Enoch, how faith conquers death. In Noah, how faith saves
others from death by the work it does for them. The moment
the entrance into the Holiest through
the blood had been set
open to us, we were called to the work of love (x. 19, 24, 25).
If with Abel we have drawn nigh to God, in the death of Christ
and the death to self this is the root of the tree ;
if with Enoch
we have given ourselves to a walk with God, in His presence
and good pleasure this is the tree growing from the root ;
let
us, with Noah, do the work of faith, that can bless and save those
around us this is the fruit of the tree. In his story we find all
the essential elements of faith combined.
By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not
Faith has ever to do with the future and the unseen.
seen as yet.
It lives in God s word and thoughts ; it sees what the world can
not see : it sees all, the future too, in the light of God. When
God reveals His terrible, almost incredible judgment, it simply
believes. It trusts not to its own experience or instinct, its
thoughts or wishes. It believes in the inconceivable fearfulness
of a judgment to come. O believer ! if thou wouldst live and
28