Today’s reading: Genesis 6:5-8
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
You looked and You saw, Lord, as You do right now. As You looked at the hearts the men and women on this planet, Your own heart ached with pain. Oh, to fathom the heart of the Creator of the very Universe wounded with pain—what infinite, blinding, searing, lump-in-the-throat pain. Because of hearts inclined, leaning, bent away from You. And the span of Earth floods with water, a picture of Your tears of grief and heartache, Lord.
But instead of humanity entirely drowning in Your grief, You send a raft of wood to save us from ourselves. Only You could love so powerfully when pained so deeply. You are coming again—again, on another rough hunk of wood, to save us eternally. Towards those life-saving beams of wood, we turn, incline, bend our hearts towards the Son---and hold on for dear life.
Lord, even in the storms and the rain, the bow of Your love writes Hope all across the skies…and from out behind the clouds, comes the Son.
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