Today’s Chapters: Genesis 6-10
Pete’s Thoughts:
Genesis 6:22
Consider what must have been racing through Noah’s mind when God told him about the coming destruction of the world. I can imagine at first he was shocked and dismayed, not sure what to do exactly. Then as if fact of the flood sunk in over time, I’m sure Noah looked around at his fellow men and saw just how wicked they were and knew that God was still just in allowing this to take place. I love how verse 22 puts it, “Thus Noah did.” While I use my imagination to put myself in Noah’s place and ponder what Noah must have been thinking, the only thing that we have of Noah’s response is that he did it – just as the Lord commanded. What a great showing of faith. God says it, we do it.
Genesis 7:10
I wonder what it was like to be in the ark for seven days, waiting for the flood. Noah and his family knew it was coming – God had said so and He was the one who told them to go into the ark. Imagine what was occurring for those seven days outside of the ark. Noah had declared for the past 100 years that a great flood was coming and that everyone should repent and seek the Lord, yet no one did. I wonder if people were not gathered around the ark for those seven days mocking Noah and God. Still God was faithful to His word and at the end of seven days, “the waters of the flood were on the earth.”
Genesis 8:22
In this verse we see a one of the great promises that God has made – As long as the earth remains, the seasons shall not cease. What I find so amazing about this is that we can still see this promise in effect today! We see the year change from winter to spring to summer to fall and back to winter. I wonder what this verse means to falsity of global warming?
Genesis 9:13
Here is another part of God’s promise to Noah that we can still see today – the rainbow. Such a thing of simple beauty holds so much promise. Every time we see one, we are reminded that never again will God destroy the earth with a global flood.
Genesis 10
In this chapter of difficult names to pronounce, we find the foundation for many of the nations that we read about in the rest of the scriptures. From the Canaanites to the Jebusites, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to Babel and Nineveh, many will play important roles are we continue to read through this greatest book to ever be written.
