#DailyDevotion We Are Horrified Because We Don’t Know The Nature Of Sin

Lent Day 6th Tuesday

Read Gen 7:11—8:12

1Gen 7:13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark…23  He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark….Gen 8:1  But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.

 

Many unbelievers and a few believers at that, look at this event from Genesis with horror. What kind of God would kill every man, woman and child and every beast of the earth just because they were sinful. They may understand every man and woman, but child and beasts? What a cruel God, they think. They have heard God is love but where is the love in this?

 

But they and we sometimes do not understand the true nature of sin. It has corrupted all people and all creation. While we may look around and see good stuff happening around us, we cannot see into the hearts of people and we can just turn on the TV and see how it affects our world. We must look at this lesson and look at our world and repent before God comes again in judgment but not by a flood but with fire at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

 

But God is love and God is merciful and kind. It is not kind and loving to let sin continue to rule people’s lives and to let them to continue to debase themselves, others and the world. God is merciful and kind because as we see in chapter 7 he preserves mankind, eight people in all to continue humanity. He could have decided, and rightly so, to wipe us all out and just start over with a new lump of clay. But we are here because of his mercy, kindness and love towards humanity. He preserved the animals of the earth by saving 7 pairs of clean animals according to their kind and one pair of unclean animals according to their kind.

 

God is loving, merciful and kind because he remembered Noah, his family and the beasts aboard the ark. He dissipated the water so they could have a new life as God renewed the face of the earth. When Christ comes, he too will remember his people who live in the ark of the Church. He shall raise them bodily and change our lowly bodies to be like his. He will renew the cosmos as he takes all wickedness from it. It will be a world where righteousness reigns. He promises this to all who repent of their sins and trust in for their salvation. It is for who are baptized and believe on him for eternal life.

 

Are you going to be like those outside the ark and mock God’s people or are you going to trust Christ’ word and join his people in the safety of the ark, the Church?

 

Heavenly Father, ever give us true repentant and faith in Jesus’ words of promise that we may be held safely in the ark of your Church until his revelation on the Last Day. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.