"Noah Found Favor with the Lord"

Covenant with God

Signs of God's Covenant

The Rainbow

Genesis 6:1-8 The Message

Giants in the Land

6 ^1-2 When the human race began to increase, with more and more daughters being born, the sons of God noticed that the daughters of men were beautiful. They looked them over and picked out wives for themselves.

³ Then God said, “I’m not going to breathe life into men and women endlessly. Eventually they’re going to die; from now on they can expect a life span of 120 years.”
⁴ This was back in the days (and also later) when there were giants in the land. The giants came from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men. These were the mighty men of ancient lore, the famous ones.

Noah and His Sons

^5-7 God saw that human evil was out of control. People thought evil, imagined evil—evil, evil, evil from morning to night. God was sorry that he had made the human race in the first place; it broke his heart. God said, “I’ll get rid of my ruined creation, make a clean sweep: people, animals, snakes and bugs, birds—the works. I’m sorry I made them.”

⁸ But Noah was different. God liked what he saw in Noah.

For Reflection

God created men and women as sexual beings capable of procreating.  It seems that God gave each freedom to choose, not only their partners but also the freedom to live their lives as they wished.  I suppose God expected his creation to honor God. But, alas, humans chose to follow the seduction and delusions of self-determination and idolatry. This lead to God's disappointment.

And then there was Noah, a righteous man. Noah came from the lineage of Seth, not Cain.  So God decided to restore his creation in the manner of Noah.

Pray

Pray prayers of thanksgiving to God.  Pray that you will make choices that honor God. Pray that your words and deeds will lead others in the path Christ taught.  Pray that, like Noah, you will lead a God fearing life.