The world was broken, and almost every heart was hard. Those hard hearts were solidly structured in evil. God told Noah what would come and what to do. He did not argue. He did not ask for signs. He went to work.

"Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.” Genesis 6:14 (CSB)

The ark seems large and slow to build. Noah cuts wood and sets it in place. Noah is not recorded making long speeches about what he was going to build. He kept building.

"Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” Genesis 6:22 (NIV)

He believed because he acted. Faith was not something he explained. It was something he did with his hands. The ark rose plank by plank while the sky stayed clear.

"By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen… built an ark to save his family.” Hebrews 11:7 (NIV)

When the rain came then words were useless. Promises and doubts washed away. Only the work remained. The ark floated because Noah had finished what he started. Follow-through shows faith.

"The flood continued for forty days on the earth; the water increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth.” Genesis 7:17 (CSB)

Action saved him. Not what he said. Not what others thought. The work did. God provided a faithful work to participate in.

“ In the same way, faith by itself—that does nothing—is dead.” James 2:17 (NCV)

In the absence of soft hearts witnessing a better way, obedience to goodness does not care about an audience.

Noah turned his belief into something solid.

What does your work show that you believe in?