Noah, Justice, and Mercy
By Christian at Work
Because Noah was consecrated in heart and conduct of religious life, therefore God determined to save him and his family from the impending flood. Here was a wholly exceptional and distinguished mercy. And yet God exhibited mercy to the sinners around Noah in allowing 120 years of probation, filled with warnings and opportunities to repent. God's ways are always just, and the justice is tempered with mercy. If, after exhortation and warning, the world could not be induced to forsake its wickedness, then, for the sake of generations to come, it were better for it to be destroyed, and a new experiment to be begun under the righteous Noah and his family.—Christian at Work.