or Eight Days to Christmas
Sometimes the Old Testament indicates a
number without calling it by ‘name,’ and the story of Noah is one example. Eight people got into the ark and all eight
were saved because of the uprightness of one man, Noah. The Bible doesn’t indicate anything spiritually
or morally about his sons, in-laws or his wife, only him. Noah was “…a preacher of righteousness…” (2Pt.
2:5) We can surely see how not all children
follow after their parent’s godly examples…
Noah was a just man
and perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. Gn. 6:9
And Noah did
according to all that Jehovah commanded him. (7:5)
…Noah and Shem and
Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his
sons with them, entered into the ark. (7:13)
Behold! I, even I,
establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you; (9:9)
Because of Noah’s desire to walk godly,
the Lord saved him AND his family from death by the flood. To think on: Noah could have disobeyed God
and put off building the ark (a task which would have been very time
consuming), or he could have delayed getting in the ark when God told him to,
or left through the window in the seven days they were shut in without seeing
the flood come (Gn. 7:10).
By faith Noah,
being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear
constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the
world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. Hb. 11:7
But Noah’s faith was strong and he knew
God would do what He said even though he didn’t see it with his eyes. He feared God enough to do what he was asked
despite being laughed at and mocked like he must have been. He trusted God before the flood, during the
flood, and after the flood. And because
of Noah’s faith, eight lives were saved.
In the movie ‘Evan Almighty’ the Lord asks a modern man to build an ark,
and he struggles with the task. How
would we do if God asked us? Would we do
it? Would we even believe?