Unto Noah

I had never considered how Noah and his family gathered together all the animals that God commanded him to take into the ark. Then two words struck me in the King James Version of the flood account I was reading the other night: unto Noah. Noah and his family boarded the ark and the animals and creatures followed, two by two, unto Noah. My six year old daughter’s version of the International Children’s Bible translates that phrase as “came to Noah.” There seemed to have been no problem getting the animals into the ark. They just came to Noah. The study notes for that passage in my Life Application Study Bible cleared things up: God took care of the details of getting the animals to Noah.

How would this account have been different if Noah had become anxious over the details of God’s plan? God didn’t tell Noah to go get the animals; He told Noah to build the ark and take the animals with him. Would there have been time to complete the ark if Noah and his sons became preoccupied with trying to ensure that enough animals were gathered rather than simply obeying God’s command to build?

How often do we worry about the details of our lives? How many blessings do we miss out on because we are caught up in the details rather than accomplishing that which God has given us to accomplish? Jesus did not ask us to stress out over the details of our salvation. He gave us a command: believe. He handled the details and our salvation came unto us.