I love Winnie the Pooh and grew up reading the books and listening to Maurice Evans read the books on records played on Mom and Dad's console stereo.
God makes a rain prediction to Noah in Genesis 6. God says,
I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
But here is the part that I am constantly amazed by. Noah began building the ark long before it started to rain. And it may have been many, many years before the flood. In fact, it may have been many years.
Here is what we know. Noah was around 500 years old when God told him to build it. And he was around 600 years old when he entered the ark. So, assuming Noah began shortly after he was commanded to build it, it may have taken up to 100 years. The Bible doesn't provide that level of detail. But I have to imagine it would take a 500 year old man and his three sons a very long time to build a boat the size of the ark.
But he did build it. He built it in the middle of a desert. He built it without ever experiencing rain like he would one day when he entered the ark. What an amazing thought. The world had never seen rain and floods like they were going to see.
He built that ark on faith. And that faith provided safety for not just him. But also his wife, his sons, and his sons' wives. Noah's obedience made it possible for others to live.
Does anyone see Noah's response and actions as a model for us as husbands and fathers?
What if he had waited until he started seeing the dark clouds gathering on the horizon?
I am just talking out loud here, but I think it would have been too late.
By the way, it's supposed to rain here tomorrow.
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