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What Exactly Does God Think of Us?
"The Covenants: Dealing with Sin"
Genesis 9:8-17; 1 Peter 3:18-22
The story of Noah's Ark is a favorite among the Sunday School set. We emblazon our nurseries with the Ark, along with the Rainbow. We do gloss over the destruction of all life in the flood, fixating instead on the promise God makes to never again destroy the earth through a flood.
Our focus is right, though. The incredible part of this story is not the flood, nor the Ark and its animals, but rather the fact that God would make such a promise despite the certainty of the continuing sin of humanity. As the verses immediately following our Genesis reading today show, the flood did nothing to stem the tide of sin. Yet, God promises the entire earth, and all living things, that he will not destroy them anyway.
It is the amazing and free giving of himself that we find to an even more ridiculous degree in the events we are now focusing on in Lent, the giving of God's Son, Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, for our sin.
Do we wonder what God thinks of us? We need look no further than these amazing stories of God's giving of himself to us...
FOR NEXT SUNDAY: Genesis 17:1-16; Romans 4:13-25
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