Genesis 6:9-22
We now get a note that introduces a counter-melody. Noah’s character and trust moves against the flow of sin and deterioration from chapter 3 on. Something new is at work here. Noah accepts his being as a creature who answers in trust to God’s Word to him (6:9, 22).
Sometimes just when we think things can’t get worse, well, you just don’t say that, right? But God has an answer for our cynicism. Just when it seems things can’t get worse, God will provide a way. When things seem at their worst, there is still the possibility of faith. It is in many ways a dismal world, but that’s not the whole picture, and certainly not what God intends for us. We get to choose between dismal or a boat. We could be like the early church, which thought of itself as a ship.
Prayer:
God, you could be like one of those space movie alien empires that decides life on earth is a blight on the universe and to be terminated. And you will one day end the world as we know it. But not just to destroy. I guess not even you can do what is against your own character. Let me join wholeheartedly with your grace-full alternative. In Him. Amen.
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as we read in the opening of genesis, when humans were created, we were entrusted with the care of our fellow living, breathing creatures. in this chapter, god turns to us in the person of noah and family and trusts us to be stewards of a significant part of his creation.
noah foreshadows his descendants who will be entrusted with the care and salvation of others.
to this day, each one of us is noah, entrusted by god to care for his creation.
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