But with you will I establish my covenant; and you shall come into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
– Genesis 6:18

Thoughts on Today’s Verse…

In God’s eyes, only Noah was a just man, and a man who could undertake His commission. Meanwhile, he was the only person who was supposed to survive. Nevertheless, God still kept Noah’s wife and sons because of him, from which we can see God’s compassionate and loving disposition and substance. God’s word says, “Noah was the only just man in God’s eyes during that time, by implication his wife and his sons and daughters-in-law were all not just people, but God still kept these people because of Noah. God did not ask of them the way He asks of people now, and instead kept all eight members of Noah’s family alive. They received God’s blessing because of Noah’s righteousness.”