He planted a vineyard

“And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard”

The Lord’s command was still the same: be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. There was not a great deal of value in an earth that was empty God had created the earth so that it might belong to the people who were created in His own image. If the earth was to remain empty then there would no one to act as stewards and use the abundant resources that the Lord had made. However, all this had to come from Noah’s three children and their wives. Having fulfilled his duty to save the earth Noah got on with his life and cultivated grapes in a vineyard. There are times in our lives when we may need to pray and think carefully about decisions that we have to make but there are other times when we have to just go ahead and do what God has given us to do. In some ways Noah was the same as Abraham in Gen 15: 6 where “he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.” Heb 11: 7 reminds us that Noah was a man of faith but we are reminded here that faith always shows itself in action, that is, in obedience.