They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until… the flood came and destroyed them all. (verse 27)
It always amazes me that this is the description of the days before the flood. We think of this time as a time of great violence, of sin and debauchery. But this is the description: they ate, they drank, they got married. It seems so ordinary. Likewise, the verse on Sodom (verse 28) contains a similar type of normalcy.
Yet they did all these things with no relation to God. And whatever is not from faith is sin. These people therefore were doing nothing by sin, though their sin seems ever so harmless and ordinary.
What a wake up call these verses should be to us today! We tend to focus on not doing ‘bad’ things, rather than doing all things for the glory of God. Like those that perished, we so often fail to have any positive righteousness, which comes from Christ alone.
How wonderful of our Heavenly Father to provide for us an Ark to save us; His only begotten Son, Christ Jesus, through whom we are made righteous in the sight of God.
Praise God!
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