Noah teaches us to listen to God

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It has been really rainy in South Carolina! A lot of time, we're in a perpetual drought, so, we needed it. But, since I have this song in my head anyway, Jars Of Clay - Flood (it's a good song)!
I was thinking about Noah. Yes, Noah. Need an Ark? I Noah a guy! (Yes, I have a t-shirt that says that, I have so few t-shirts, that they may as well be memorable). Ah yes, now you know about my lifelong love of puns and word plays.
Anyway, because it would take too long, we're not going to go through everything (as always, PLEASE read the Bible on your own).
Let's hit some of the points in the story though.
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he he had made man, and it grieved him in his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the fact of the earthl both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the folws of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD”.
Genesis 6:5-8
So, God wasn't exactly happy with mankind. And, he told this Noah guy to build an ark. (Genesis 6:14-22), and God told him to keep his family in the ark,
“And the LORD said unto Noah, come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation”.(Genesis 7:1)
So, Noah was seen as righteous compared to his contemporaries.
There's a lot more, but, suffice it to say, there was a pretty dang big flood (Genesis 8:2-14).
And do you know what Noah and his family did after all this? Thanked God.
“And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD (yes, the KJV says “builded”), an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings upon the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground and more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smith any more every living thing as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and hareveest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease”. (Genesis 8:20-22)
Here's the thing, 1) Noah, while he had his own imperfections (Genesis 9:21), was STILL more righteous than the generation he came from.
2) He listened to God (Genesis 6:5-22), and 3), one thing I think we often forget to do, is he THANKED GOD (Genesis 8:20-22).
How often are we tempted to listen to voices in our own heads and convince ourselves it's the voice of God? How often are we worried about being seen righteous in the eyes of men, instead of the eyes of God? And, more importantly, how often do we forget to THANK GOD?
Let Noah's story be a lesson for us all.