REMEMBRANCE BY THOUGHTFUL KINDLINESS - PART 4

THURSDAY 12 JUNE 2025

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark, as the waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. 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."

The Bible says:

"For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth. As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface. Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth, rising more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks" (Genesis 7:17-18 NIV).

The catastrophic raining events were an untouched system of God's wrath in the way it happened. Unfortunately, as the waters flooded the earth, there was no human-based solution to offset the problem of water level rises, and their accompanying storm surge. So the water levels hit the earth tragically, and a very great and heightened increase was visibly covering the highest mountains throughout the earth, mostly within the time period of a hundred and fifty days.

As for the ark, it highlights the victorious dominion Noah and his family had over the ways of the world and the incorrigible enemies of God; In the depth of wise and righteous providence, the ark's likened imagery is that of the saving grace of the Lamb of God, which is rooted in the nature and finished work of Christ, symbolizing deliverance, salvation and protection from eternal destruction and damnation.

The worldly-wise of that generation were subjected to God's judgments, instead of His mercy, and therefore, they experienced the cost and wages of sin, which is death - through the wrath of God. The implicative semantic theory in today's world is that God longs that people should understand and embrace the means to their salvation, which is the Lord Jesus Christ, before it is too late. Stay tuned for part 5. Shalom!

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

Guided Prayer:

Gracious Father in heaven, I thank you for my free salvation and the joyfulness of experiencing your heavenly calling, with the abiding conviction of your remembrance by thoughtful kindliness constantly awakened in my life for my continual blessings, in Jesus' Name, Amen!