The Lord's Sorrow for All Creation

God Destroys and Recreates

Noah's Steadfast Faith

Genesis 6:1-8 The Message (MSG)

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's creation is systematic.  That is, Creation has form, substance and a structural driving process. Some have suggested the inherent method of the structure is evolution.  This may mean that the whole Creation is continuously changing adjusting to the impacts of other facets in the Creation. Therefore, all things (some more than others), driven by an instinct to survive, adapt.

Humans, perhaps, are not independent of the evolutionary mechanisms. God has graced humans with freedom of choice. We see the results of that freedom in the evolution toward separation from rather than a commitment to God's intention for humankind. God did not create evil. Humans did.

God also gave humans a soul. Noah stands in contrast to the human majority. Noah has responded to the resident point in his heart (soul) by fulfilling God's ambitions for God's Creation. God, saddened by the turn of events, pushes the reset button. All of the interactive webs of Creation were affected. Noah remains to become the archetype for human spiritual development.

God will push the reset button again. God will show God's self in Christ.

Pray

Pray about all things.  Pray so that you can deepen your relationship with God.  Pray so that you will respond to the point in your soul, the Holy Spirit. Pray with your hands and feet so that you will walk this Earth in the manner of Jesus.


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