REMEMBRANCE BY THOUGHTFUL KINDLINESS - PART 3

WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 2025

The Lord, having seen how great the wickedness of the human race had become - on the surface of the earth, He regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. God's "troubled heart" emphasized the eternal, life-giving nature of Spirit agitating and getting worried about the mortal, dependent nature of flesh. Simply put, God felt more and more uneasy about the state of intractably-wayward humanity.

Without God Himself sustaining humanity, no expression of human life on earth would be possible because all humans are totally dependent on God's benevolence. Unfortunately, in the process of time, daemon proved beyond doubt that all flesh became wilful, obstinate, and inconsiderate rebels, but Noah found unusual favour in the eyes of the Lord, because he was a good man who exerted a right-living influence, as the best godly man in his generation. He walked closely with God, and evidently, the patriarch lived beyond the destruction waiting to happen. More below!

Reference: Genesis 8:1 Amplified Bible (AMP)

"And God remembered and thought kindly of Noah and every living thing and all the animals that were with Him in the ark; and God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters receded."

Noah was the only man who listened to God, and therefore, he built the ark. He did everything God asked him to do. After Noah did all that the Lord commanded him, the Bible says:

"Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month - on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights" (Genesis 7: 6-12 NIV).

Contained in the above versified passage, and particularly in Genesis Chapter 7, is an expression of too much of God's goodness and kindness to Noah and his family. As the just, they entered the ark and walked in them, because God approved them, justifying His good pleasure, and denoting his fervent clemency. As for the rebellious people in Noah's time, they remained drugged on the fumes of their self-wise understanding, because wickedness characterized their "all-consuming" revolting addiction. They eagerly went astray and became mortal affront to God's precepts and commands, and therefore, their eyes were too blinded to even sense the imminence of His severe judgment, and eventually, they fell under the weight of God's wrath.

Moreover, under the instructive influence which directed Noah's walk with God, the Scripture stated:

"On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in" (Genesis 7:13-16).

Now this is the kernel of the contextual events: Having established the seeds of new generation in the ark, in confirmation with His covenant, the Lord Himself closed the door behind them. Stay tuned for part 4. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Deuteronomy 32:26; Ecclesiastes 2:16; Hebrews 10:32; Jude 1:5.

Exuberant Declaration:

By walking faithfully with God, I have effected a permanent transformation in my mode of thinking, with an inherent moral worth, harmonizing with the character of God, because His life in me has ingrained the perfection of true form of godliness. Praise God!