Noah was a good man. His biographer affirms that he "walked with God" (Gen. 6:9). Because his steps were in concert with God, he had the needed foresight to save his household from the devastating flood. Noah had an earnest, childlike assurance of his immortal safety in God. This recognition gave him the vision to build the life-preserving ark.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, defines "ark" in these words in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 581): "Safety; the idea, or reflection, of Truth, proved to be as immortal as its Principle; the understanding of Spirit, destroying belief in matter." The consciousness of safety in God, which Noah felt as he walked and talked with Him, constituted the unerring divine specification, or plan, which guided Noah humanly in the construction of a craft which would securely house his family.
Noah was a righteous man, just, and "perfect in his generations," we are informed. His sense of God's nearness was so clear that the deluge did not harm him. What Noah accomplished points to God's law of Love, which operates impartially for all who cherish and obey Him. It is an illustration of the protecting, healing, saving method as taught and practiced in Christian Science. Noah turned naturally and consistently to God with an expectant trust that he would be divinely guided. It was, no doubt, his custom to keep his thought in rapport with God. It was the consciousness of his nearness to God which enabled him to hear, to comprehend, and then to translate into human action the wisdom of God pertaining to safety and eternal being.
