Imagine being Noah, in a boat, for almost a year, noise, animals everywhere, all your friends are gone, despair, sin and death all around. And the waters won’t relent.

No rainbows here.

All you have is a promise from God, he called you righteous and blameless but you don’t know what else to do. So Noah opened a window after nearly a year of flooding, and he brings out a raven and three doves.

I imagine Noah’s hands shaking, tired, exhausted, while trying to hold the raven in his hands.

Every few days, he would let a raven and three doves out the window, one every seven days. Just waiting, hoping for more.

Things were bad, every dove would came back empty handed, no hope for an end to the mess. Everything seemed exactly the same.

Finally, the last dove left Noah’s hands and never came back.

She found a home so Noah knew it was time, they could get out of the ark and start a new life once again. Worship and praise would soon return, the rainbow of God’s faithfulness above them, safety at last.

But where was the real victory?

In the holding on and letting go. God called Noah righteous and blameless but his trust was tested over and over again. He had to put that righteousness to the test.

He had to let go and he did. He could have gotten mad and yelled at the raven, but he didn’t. He could have come up with a master plan for the dove to follow, but he didn’t do that either. Instead, he held the dove in his hands and let it go, over and over again.

And by letting go he saved himself and his family along with two of each kind. A new life would soon begin, they would once again populate the earth and bless the Lord.

But the victory wasn’t in surviving the storm. The victory wasn’t in building the ark.

The victory wasn’t in seeing the rainbow.

The victory was in letting go of the dove, over and over again. Holding on, letting go. We all have needs that concern us these days. Bills, illness, anxiety and stress.

Our tendency is to get mad, to want control over our circumstances, to have the perfect plan. Let go. Hold on to Jesus and let go of the rest. He knows what’s best for you.

He will bring you to the best place, to a place of milk and honey for you and your family, but you have to let go, over and over again.

Today, be like Noah and live in the letting go.

If we do so, I believe and declare that we will have peace and power in JESUS name. Then, we will be a blessing to ourselves and to everyone around us.

What do you need to let go of today?

What results are you hanging on to today or for 2022? Let it go and you will surely live.

#thisisGOZO!

Genesis 6 – So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.