WHAT IF WE HAD A “NOAH”?

A friend of mine sent me his sermon notes on the story of Noah and the ark. He had this most interesting question to ponder: What if we had people willing to step up and be “Noah” to help God recreate a better and most just world? That question itself was tough but his examples where it didn’t happen were even tougher to deal with. I want to share with you one of his examples.

We all know the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who hid out with her family in Amsterdam, Holland during World War II to escape the violence of the Nazis. Recently, the Institute for Jewish Research in New York City found papers showing that Anne Frank’s father had asked a friend to help him bring his family to safety in the United States.

The United States was reluctant to accept refugees.

So, Anne Frank and her family ended up in a Nazi prison camp, where they later died. What if someone from the State Department had stepped up and stepped out to save the refugees from the Nazi Death Camps?

My friend goes on to ask even tougher questions. “What if some Noah had stood up and said, ‘Let us take these Jewish refugees into our own land.’ What if someone would have stepped up and stepped out, willing to do their part in stopping violence wherever it is, however it is, by whomever it is caused? What would Anne Frank be doing today? What would her grandchildren, even her great-grandchildren be doing today?”

We will never know – no Noah stepped up.

What can we do?

Something to think about!

Pastor Mark