Genesis 6:22

Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Faith in God's word, joined to a dependence on God's promises, in Christ, will ever induce holy obedience. Romans 4:20

REFLECTIONS

WHAT dreadful consequences of the guilt related in this chapter, soon followed ungracious and unholy connections in the marriage state, between the seed of Seth and the seed of Cain! What sad events is sin ever producing in private life, and in public bodies! How hath it drawn away the wisest of men to idolatry! See 1 Kings 11:4; 1 Kings 11:4. How hath it corrupted the church itself, and brought misery upon it! See Ezra 9:1. Reader! remember what the Apostle saith, Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Or what concord hath Christ with Belial?

What a sweet thought is that of the apostle: The gifts and callings of God (he saith) are without repentance. Romans 11:29. Though it is said, God repented that he had made man; yet it is nowhere said, he repented that be redeemed him.

May it be my mercy, to remember, while reading the account of Noah's finding favour with God, that it is by him alone, of whom Noah was a type, even the Lord Jesus Christ, that I can find favour and acceptance with God in this life, or salvation in another. In him, as the True Ark, may I be found, when God shall arise to judge the world.