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Thankful for God’s Grace

Scripture reading for January 3rd:  Genesis 5-9

Growing in Thanksgiving:  Genesis 6:9-14  “This is the account of Noah.  Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.  .  . Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and full of violence.  God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.  So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them.  I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.  So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.”    

Although man was created “very good”, sin entered mankind through their disobedience and the creation was corrupted as well. In a few years, the man God created had become so evil that God judged the earth and destroyed all living things except one man, Noah, and his family and a remnant of the animals.  God preserved them as they obeyed His instruction to build the ark.

Cause for Thanksgiving:  God spared Noah and is true to His Word! Jesus used Noah and his time to speak of His return.  “As in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.  For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.”  (Matthew 24:37-38)