Noah’s Ark

I was reading Genesis 6-8 the other day – the story of Noah’s ark – and I thought, wow, Noah was one faithful man. How much did he have to trust God? A whole lot.

He had to trust that God was going to actually send the rain. Think about it, they are in a desert. How likely is it to rain, let alone rain enough to flood the entire earth? And what a mad man he must have looked like! Building an ark in the desert. He must have had a lot of trust that God would follow through with His plan.

Noah also had to trust that God would tame the animals. He put a lot of animals on one boat and he must have had to trust that God would divinely work some miracle so that those animals didn’t go completely wild on the ark!

He trusted that God’s plan was the best plan. It’s not easy to believe that destroying the earth was the best plan, but Noah knew of God’s sovereignty and that His plan was good. Can you imagine being Noah on the ark and seeing everything on earth destroyed? In our own day and age, we’ve seen the devastation of tsunamis and hurricanes, but none we’ve seen compares to flooding the earth. While seeing the earth destroyed, Noah had to have trusted in God’s plan and that God’s plan was good.

This part isn’t about Noah, but about his wife: Noah’s wife must have been an amazing woman. The Bible doesn’t say much about her except that she got on the ark, along with their three sons and their wives. We don’t know any back story about her. Maybe she questioned him at some point and maybe she doubted himat some time; we don’t really know. Maybe God also spoke to her directly, but maybe she just had to trust that God was leading her husband. I just think it’s commendable that she got on the ark and that she stood by him. What faith and what faithfulness!