Re: Verse reading–Genesis 7:1-4, 17-24; 8:1-5, 13-16, 20-22 (day three)
“Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.” The images of a smiling Noah in his floating petting zoo adorning the wallpaper of many a toddler’s room will fade away when we consider for a few moments the actual account of this family’s journey through the deluge. For instance, the family members conceivably kept personal possessions during their voyage. But the culture from which those possessions had come was gone. They had not only lost everything, they had lost the frame of reference for everything. This family could not rely on any of those markers of place. The only thing that remained the same was a person: God. They restarted the human race from that eternal reference point. What can you and I do when we begin with God?
