Noah: More Than An Ark Builder

Everyone remembers Noah for building the ark, and we all love to tell our kids the story of Noah. Did you know that Noah was five hundred years old when God instructed him to build the ark? It took Noah over one hundred years to build the ark (no power tools for Noah!). But there is another very important fact we need to make sure we are telling when explaining the story of Noah. What did he do the first five hundred years of his life? Some might think "we do not know" but the Bible does tell us.

In Genesis 6:9 we are told Noah was a righteous man, blameless amoung the people of his time, and he walked with God. That is what Noah was doing his first 500 years - we need to make sure we remember to tell that part of history when speaking about the great flood and the building of the ark!