Devotion:
Read Genesis 6:6-13, 17-18.
When God created Adam and Eve, his plan was to live in fellowship with them forever. They were to enjoy the Garden of Eden and take care of all of God’s creation. However, they sinned and broke that fellowship with God. God put into place his Divine Plan to continually pursue his children, to continue to draw them to him, so that all his children could live with him eternally. For ten generations (about 1100) years God pursued his children but when he “observed the extent of human wickedness on earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil,” he was sorry “he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart.” (Genesis 6:5-6). God sent a flood to destroy the earth and everything in it in order to start over with people who would love and obey him. God’s new plan was to repopulate the earth using the only blameless person on earth, Noah. In God’s relationship with human beings and all of creation, this was a major transition. God took drastic measures to draw his children to him, but he promised never to destroy the earth again by a flood. God keeps his promises and covenants. All we have to do as humans is trust and obey in the same way Noah did.
Personal Worship Option:
Has your relationship with God gone through transitions? Thank God that even when you fell in and out of relationship with God, he was always faithful. Know that God will always call you his child and will pursue you with great love.
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! 1 John 3:1
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