‘And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it
was corrupt' (Genesis 6:12). Noah, the
grandson of Methuselah and only ten generations removed from that of Adam
himself, was chosen by God as the one man to continue His legacy of mankind while
God eradicated the evilness & disobedience of early humans. Just imagine that for a moment… What would
your reaction be if God told you he was going to destroy the majority of our
world and YOU would be the one person responsible for its regeneration? You think your life is filled with stress
& pressure now? That’s nothing in
comparison to the weight on Noah’s shoulders.
No wonder the dude created the first vineyard and ended up drunk &
naked in his tent! I would have been so
overcome with fear & anxiety that I never would have left that tent. But Noah was different; he got out of that
tent, stopped getting drunk, & fulfilled God’s command. He was brave.
He was bold. He was Rowdy.
Not only
was Noah responsible for constructing a massive ship, which took 100 years to
build & was more then 1 ½ football fields in length, but he was also tasked
to preach to the people on earth and ask them to repent of their sins. He endlessly preached & warned of the
coming flood. Many people heard his
words, but no one truly listened. And
why should they? Humans at that time had
never seen rain. Humans, crops, and
animals got their water from rivers, natural springs, and mists. In those days no one had ever seen rain
before; so why would they ever believe some old man proclaiming that the ‘windows
of heaven’ would open up and pour water down on them?
In many
ways, Noah & his Ark are a great parallel & forerunner to that of Jesus
Christ. In Noah’s time, the only way to
keep living was to believe what Noah was saying and get on the Ark. And the only way to eternal living is to
believe in Jesus Christ. Additionally, just
as Christ was sealed in his tomb after His crucifixion, so was Noah & his
family sealed up in the ark only to emerge months later. Noah was the hope for humanity after the
Flood just as Jesus became the hope for all humanity after His resurrection.
Noah’s
steadfast faith & belief in the Lord will forever be an inspiration to all
of us Christians.
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