Hebrews 11:7 · World English Bible
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
Certainty about something nobody can see is exactly what puts a hammer in a person's hand for a hundred years. Godly fear and faith are one motion here: total conviction about what God said and no one could verify sets a state urgent enough to outlast ridicule, and urgency that lasts turns into lumber.
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Certainty about something nobody can see is exactly what puts a hammer in a person's hand for a hundred years.
Godly fear and faith are one motion here: total conviction about what God said and no one could verify sets a state urgent enough to outlast ridicule, and urgency that lasts turns into lumber. The chain runs all the way down, since what a man is certain of decides what he feels each morning, what he feels decides whether he picks up the tools, and decades of picking them up decide who walks onto dry ground afterward.
A boat that size is a decision with retreat cut off, because a man who has spent his reputation and his years on it cannot quietly change his mind. Aimed the other way, the same certainty about the same unseen water produces a frightened man watching the sky, and the difference between the two is a household alive.
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What are you sure of that nobody around you can see yet?
The tree that stands a thousand years began as something you could pull up with two fingers. Everything large is made of a long sequence of small, unglamorous days.
Do not wait for the crowd to agree. Hold what you have judged true and keep working at it while they laugh, since their opinion changes nothing about what is coming.
Hold to the work itself and let go of how it looks to others. Steady action under mockery is worth more than brilliant action that needed applause.
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