Isaiah 48:18

Someone has said very pertinently, “There was no rudder to Noah’s ark.” It was hardly necessary. He had obeyed God and now was shut in, with God only to steer his ark, for he was on God’s errand.

The man who could endure what he endured for more than a century, while preaching the Word amidst a hostile people, did not have any fears as to where he was going. The fulfillment of the prophecy regarding the deluge must have confirmed a faith already strong.

Do we not see how God’s purposes are thwarted and deferred by human perversity? At the very time when God had determined upon the election and consecration of Aaron to the priesthood, Aaron was spending his time in molding and chiseling the golden calf.

We might have been crowned fifty years ago, but just as the coronation was about to take place we were discovered in the manufacture of an idol.