“And so the Lord said, ‘I will destroy all human beings that I made on the Earth. And I will destroy every animal and everything that crawls on the earth and the birds of the air, because I am sorry that I have made them.’”
Once again we listen to the Word and are stunned to silence.
He was sorry. Sorry he made us. He despaired that we even existed. He wanted to destroy everything.
Michaela is stricken. “But we are so much WORSE now.”
We all nod in somber agreement and quiet despair. But there is hope!
“Noah found favor with God.”
How did he find fvor? How can WE find favor?
For the love of one faithful man, God offered a reprieve from his terrible justice. Noah must not only believe, but act on his belief. In the midst of persecution and ridicule he picked up hammer and nails and crafted salvation from wood. And when the flood of God's disappointment was over, the Lord of all creation hung a promise in the sky to remind us of His love.
The rainbow reminds us of God’s promise, and that our true salvation comes from another piece of wood, the raft of the cross that we must cling to or be drowned in the sins of the world.
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