Noah's Ark

Many of us are familiar with the story about Noah and how God decided to erase the human race due to their wickedness. We can see in:

Genesis 6-5:8

⁵ The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. ⁶ The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. ⁷ So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” ⁸ But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

In verses 9-14 we see why Noah was chosen and why the destruction of the earth was going to occur.

Genesis 6:9-14

⁹ This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. ¹⁰ Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. ¹² God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. ¹³ So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. ¹⁴ So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 

Noah built the ark with God’s instructions and his family and pairs of every animal were saved. Forty days it flooded and after the waters disappeared Noah and everyone/everything on the ark was saved.

The world is at a standstill currently. The COVID-19 has crippled government, economies, healthcare and will test humanities morals. What this has proven is in fact that all of these things are false securities. Putting faith in man will only lead us into anxiety, stress and depression. The USA is supposed to be the most powerful, most advanced and richest country and yet something that we cannot see is crippling the country as we speak. It does not discriminate between age, sex, gender, financial status or race and can kill rapidly. We have no cure currently and only support we can give someone is oxygen.

Psalms 118:8 It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in humans.

In all truthfulness I would prefer being on Noah’s ark and being safe knowing God is protecting us. We have turned into a selfish generation with social media. A race between people to get the most likes and followers on Instagram and other similar apps. We have forgotten God and his mercies. We have turned our backs on God and we are seeing the results of our sin.

2 Chronicles 7:13-22

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, ¹⁴ if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ¹⁵ Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. ¹⁶ I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

¹⁷ “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws, ¹⁸ I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’

¹⁹ “But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them, ²⁰ then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. ²¹ This temple will become a heap of rubble. All^[ who pass by will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ ²² People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.’”

I know many people have seen this on social media. I prefer to focus on the last few sentences. We are all wondering why all of this is happening. It is because we have gone away from God. This world has forgotten who the Lord God is and what he has sacrificed for us. This is the time we become like David:

1 Samuel 13:14 But now your kingdom will not endure; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the Lord’s command.”

I mean how more obvious can the Lord be when he created this new trend of “Social distancing.” Unless we are non-essential workers we are at home with our significant other, children, grandparents pretty much 24 hours a day.

Matthew 18:20 “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

We can use these 14 days or however long this pandemic will last to spend time with God and our families. Some professions barely get to spend time with their children and now schools are closed. This is an opportunity for many to spend quality time with their kids. Noah had to spend 40 days with his family on an ark as well as some wildlife. They trusted God and in his plans. At least we have some internet and able to reach out to others during this very difficult time. Tomorrow is not promised and God is giving us a wake-up call. It is true that money, fame, how many followers you have does not matter to God. He wants us to give him his praise and rightfully so. We know at the end of Noah’s story God made a covenant, “Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood.” In Genesis 9:16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.

It is time we bow down on our knees and ask God forgiveness for our sins. Only his blood and mercy can save us. God is giving us a chance to redeem ourselves and put our faith back in him. Nothing is certain in this world EXCEPT that God is in control. We are all patiently waiting for the rainbow after this pandemic. Pray for those that have already dealt with fatal outcomes from this virus. 

Pray without ceasing!