Interesting thought from my quiet time today.
How did Noah react the next time it rained after the flood?
In my opinion, he had three options:
1. Despair and dismay that a horrible flood is going to happen again.
2. Belief in God's promise that a flood will never happen again. This is only a thunderstorm, and there is nothing to fear.
3. Trust God will take care of him no matter how severe the present storm ends up being.
I never thought about Noah's reaction to a thunderstorm after his experience
with the horrible flood.
But isn't that something happens to us all the time in life? We get through a very difficult situation and finally feel like we are on steady ground again. We can catch our breath. God restores and heals us.
However, because we live in the midst of sinful world, something else comes along that will test our faith.
Do we remember how faithful God was to us in the past? Do we trust that God will be faithful to us again?
Or are we always going to be afraid of the thunder?
“To me this is like the days of Noah,
when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth.
So now I have sworn not to be angry with you,
never to rebuke you again.
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Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 54:9-10
"....the Lord promised to: Noah by an oath, that there would never be a deluge, and that this oath would perpetually remain in force. (Genesis 9:10) But for this, the good man might have trembled, and, at the approach of rain, might have dreaded a similar calamity, if the Lord had not sworn that this should never again happen. In like manner, when afflictions are at hand, we might dread that we should be ruined, if the Lord did not promise that the Church would be safe."
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