Genesis 6:14 – 17 The Lord said to Noah, ‘Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.  Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above; and set the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and third decks. For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall die.

God gave Noah a humungous job to build an ark, to accommodate all the animals and birds on the earth along with the food supplies for them. Noah built it according to the design given by the Lord, but the finished ship had no rudder, compass, anchors nor life-boats!

When Noah’s family and all the animals were on board, the Lord Himself shut the door of the ark from the outside (Genesis 7:16). Noah trusted the Lord to pilot the ark on the torrential waters, in the direction the Lord willed, as it took a hundred and fifty days for the waters to recede from the earth. There were no anchors in Noah’s control to halt the ship and there were no life boats for all its passengers, in the event of a ship wreck. He did not have a ‘Plan B’ to handle an emergency, but totally trusted God to guide his family and the mobile zoo to the shores of safety on top of Mount Ararat.

Noah demonstrated many thousands of years ago what Paul had written to the Roman Christians, to be led by God the Holy Spirit if we were to be called the sons of God (Romans 8:14). God considered Noah along with Job and Daniel as the three most righteous men who had ever lived until that day (Ezekiel 14:14).

Thought for the day: To safely reach the goal set by God for us, we must give Him the driver’s seat!