The Perfect Environment

(what about those fish? on the ark? not on the ark?)

A few months ago I was reading a book about Noah’s Ark to my daughters. We covered the pages about Noah and his family being righteous and Noah building the ark while the other people made fun of him. There were pictures of tigers and elephants and alligators filing up the ramp, the torrential rain falling and the ark floating along with giraffes poking their heads through the roof. It was great fun, but something caught my eye. There, underneath the ark, were an assortment of fish and other sea creatures just floating blissfully along. I wondered, “Why aren’t they in the ark?”

The answer, of course, is that they didn’t need to be! They would have been perfectly fine in the water; they were already in their perfect environment. The account of the Great Flood in the book of Genesis mentions only that: “two of all birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark”. So it seems plausible that fish and aquatic life might have ridden out the storm unaware of and unharmed by the destruction and turmoil happening right above them.

We can have our own perfect environment, our own place to ride out the storms that life brings. Trusting in the care and provision of God, surrounding ourselves with caring, loving friends, and continuing to seek answers and guidance from the Bible can keep us from harm too!

Brian

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