Gen. 6:22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him (see also 7:5).
God decided to send a devastating flood because of extreme wickedness and violence of the people. He found Noah righteous and commanded him to build an ark to escape the flood. God gave him the details about the size, materials, and engineering of the ark. God also commanded him to take some living creatures into the ark and the food supply for those in the ark for the period of the flood. Then the Bible says that “Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” In other words, Noah obeyed God completely. Obedience to God is a major theme of the Bible. We Christians are often too busy doing things for the Lord (esp. Christian ministers) but many a times we do what we want to do and not what God wants us to do. Some other times we do things the way we want to do them rather than how God wants us to do. In other words, we do something that God does not want us to do even though the task in itself is good or we do what God wants us to do but not in the way He wants us to do it. Obedience involves both (1) doing what God wants us to do, and (2) doing it how God wants it done. Noah did what God commanded him and he did them the way God commanded. God is looking for such complete obedience from His children. Our sacrifices to Him (e.g., what we do for Him) mean nothing unless we obey Him completely. In 1 Sam. 15:22, Samuel said to Saul, “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.”
May the Lord help us obey Him completely in every area of our lives!