Living In A Zoo - The One Year Women of the Bible

Living in a Zoo

Noah’s Wife

Read: Genesis 7:1-10

Glancing at the clock, Tracey groaned. Still another half hour before Dustin would get home from work. She finished cutting up the chicken and shooed Robbie and his friend away from the cookie jar and into the backyard. Sitting down to nurse the baby, Tracey realized that the dog was scratching at the door to be let out, and the cat was weaving itself around her ankles begging for supper. “You two will just have to wait your turn,” she told them. Just then the phone rang, the potatoes started boiling over, and the baby began to wail. Tracey looked at the ceiling. My life is a zoo!

Noah’s wife knew the feeling. For a year, she lived on a huge boat filled with thousands of animals and all their necessary supplies. Mealtimes took on a whole new meaning for Noah’s wife and her three daughters-in-law, but that must have seemed minor in comparison to their other chores. How did these women stand such a living arrangement, as month after month passed by? They must have wondered if their ordeal would ever end, if they would ever stand on land and breathe fresh air again.

Sometimes, as homemakers, our lives seem like a zoo, especially when it’s feeding time. It seems that all we’re doing is feeding people and cleaning up their messes. We may start to wonder how much longer we can stand it. Will things ever change? The answer to our situations is the same as for Noah’s wife. God is with us in every circumstance in every season of our lives. He will give us the strength to keep on plugging away at our chores even when they seem like drudgery. More than that, he will use those times to help our faith grow as we find blessings among the messes. Later, we will look back and know that he was the One who kept us afloat.

My times are in your hands.

Psalm 31:15 (NIV)