A design is Required

Genesis 7:1-16

Can you imagine making an airplane that was designed to take off and land with a real person inside, a business associate of mine did that in his barn; while he was working on the plane, often he would comment that when it is done I will fly over to Spring, Texas and give you a ride.  I was kind, but I had no desire to fly in the first plane my associate had ever made.  I must report that to my knowledge Jim is still flying that airplane and I am still standing on the ground looking up into the sky where Jim and others like him are flying their homemade planes.

Can you put yourself in Noah’s shoes, God tells him to build an ark because a flood is coming to destroy the earth?  First question might have been what is an ark and the second is what is a flood?  We know that the Bible gives the account of Noah being a righteous man, blameless in his generation, a man who walked with God in the middle of a people who were filled with violence.  We have no account of anyone building an ark, and so Noah did what my associate Jim did he built the ark around a detailed design; the Lord God gave Noah every detail on how the ark was to be made. Then one day while Noah and the family was looking at the finished design, God spoke, “Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.”

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice