That's A Big Door!

Here's my alpha thought. In the story of Noah's Ark we read where the door was so large only God could 'shut them in'. As I thought about the story and how God gave Noah specific instructions on how to build the ark, it struck me that God wanted the door to be so large and so heavy that Noah and his three strong sons couldn't shut it themselves! God never makes mistakes and He does everything on purpose, for a purpose.

Keeping that thought in mind, several other things occured to me.

1. Once Noah and his family did their part to be saved, they still had to
rely on God to finish what they had begun. They could not be saved
from the flood completely on their own. Their dependence was on
God in the end, even though they had accomplished a great thing
on their own.

2. Our salvation is the same. We must obey God's Word to be saved,
but in the end it's God who saves us. It's God who shuts the door.
It's God who seals our salvation after we've done our part.

Maybe these few thoughts will birth some others with you and you can build on it for something. I have already preached from these thoughts, and believe me, there are so many ways you can go with them.