Genesis – First, God.

How do you feel when you pour your life and love into your kids only to hear from your toddlers, “I don’t need you!” in a struggle to help them put clothes on and get ready for the day. As a parent we correct your growing humans only to hear, “I hate you” when we won’t allow them the freedom to continue pestering their siblings or hurting other students at school.
What does it feel like when they steal candy while you are busy checking out and paying what is owed at the store? It breaks your heart and even angers you to look in the rear view window to see them sneaking bites of the unpaid candy with pieces of it on their angel like faces! “I didn’t do it!” is their only response when caught in the act. You want to cry.

Is that how God feels the humans He created? He gave humans His breath and life only for them to turn their backs on Him. His first thought was to destroy what He had created. But there was Noah…Noah was different.
Genesis 6
Giants in the Land
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.

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

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

11-12 As far as God was concerned, the Earth had become a sewer; there was violence everywhere. God took one look and saw how bad it was, everyone corrupt and corrupting—life itself corrupt to the core.
13 God said to Noah, “It’s all over. It’s the end of the human race. The violence is everywhere; I’m making a clean sweep.
14-16 “Build yourself a ship from teakwood. Make rooms in it. Coat it with pitch inside and out. Make it 450 feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. Build a roof for it and put in a window eighteen inches from the top; put in a door on the side of the ship; and make three decks, lower, middle, and upper.
17 “I’m going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.

22 Noah did everything God commanded him to do.
THINK ABOUT IT…

We cannot say we love God and disobey His best for us. We cannot go our own way and avoid Him in this life without breaking God’s heart.
Jesus came to earth so that our relationship and life of peace with God could be restored once more. Jesus is the final answer to bringing us back to God who loves more than we can imagine, who wants His best for us, who wants to be in our lives and who is present always. HE is God and we are not. There is no one like our God.
Let us not break His heart today with our behavior that contradicts His commands and what we say we believe to love Him and to love others like He loves us. Our lives were created to love Him back. God, our Father, wants us to really love each other.

Dear Heavenly Father,
It grieves me when I break your heart with my selfish behavior. Your Holy Spirit convicts me to repent and come quickly running back to you. Thank you for your Holy Spirit! Thank you for helping us to stay focused on you and your best for us. Thank you for a way to restore our relationship through Jesus. Thank you for not destroying the entire human race in your grief. Thank you for loving us the way you do. Thank you for who you are. Thank you for Your Holy Presence. Help me to see You at work today and to praise You immediately.
In Jesus Name, Amen