God is Faithful

This week I have been thinking about parallels between Noah and his family climbing onto the Ark and what everyone of us is experiencing. I don’t want to make too much of the comparison because “The Flood” was a God ordained judgment on humanity for their evil. The COVID-19 virus and the calamity springing from it results from living in a world damaged by the effects of sin.

When Noah was told to get ready for a flood, build a boat and then get aboard the boat with his family, the experience was new. None of them had ever experienced rain, water rising, currents and waves, darkness because of the land being shaded by clouds, and people dying in the flood. They were in the ultimate season of having no control and complete uncertainty as to the end of the events unfolding!

They were told that it would rain for 40 days and nights. That is all they were told, that is all they knew. It wasn’t until day 150 that the waters began to recede from the land. In the seventh month the Ark landed on dry ground. After ten months the mountains were finally visible. Forty days later Noah sent out a raven and a dove. The raven never returned. The dove found no dry ground to land on. Seven days later Noah sent out another dove, and it returned with an olive leaf. He sent it out again after another seven days and the dove did not return.

Fifty weeks had passed, and the family’s “Ark” ride was finished. Now it was time to rebuild.

Again, I don’t want to make too much of the idea, but it frames a few thoughts.
God is faithful! He will take care of us throughout this “Ark” ride. Noah and his family entrusted their lives and future to God because they had no other choice and they knew that there was something better ahead.

“Seeing then that all these things are to be destroyed, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, while you are waiting for and desiring the coming of the day of God … according to His promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.” 2 Peter 3:11-13 (MEV)