Genesis 8: The Faithful God

Faithful God

Gen 8:1-3 “But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, and the waters receded from the earth continually...

God “remembers”- calls to mind, turns his attention toward Noah

Ps 98:3 “He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.”

Ps. 136:23 “It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures forever;”

Numbers 10:9 (ESV)

And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

Gift of Waiting

Does God remember me when I am waiting for Him?

waiting to be picked up from an event

Gen 8:13-19Gen 8:13-19 “In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. Then God said to Noah, “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.”

(v13) 11 months in a floating zoo

2 more months after running a-ground

total time approx 12.5 months

what it feels like when you are waiting on God

faith in night seasons

longing for vindication

In waiting we learn: reliance (staying afloat, contentment, provision for today, trust,

Family Altar

Gen 8:20-21 “Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.”

Family altar- the place of worship in the family

What happens in a “worship void”?

“pleasing aroma”= worship, not steak