Our God Reigns

 DEVOTION

GENESIS

OUR GOD REIGNS

Gen 8:1-5

8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

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First, we are not convinced we need that holy but, as the Hebrew word only refers to remember. It might be more correct to say that God remembered Noah. Does that imply that God forgot Noah? That simply cannot possibly be the case, for God never forgets, for if he did, then maybe he lied when he said that he would always be with us and never forsake us. If he finally remembered Noah, then we would have to believe he did forsake him, at least for a while. God remembered Noah, forget the but, as then we could understand that God remembered, as he always knew where Noah was, and watched over the ark, as that was his plan in the first place. Now it was time to make the water recede, so God caused the rain to stop, he caused the springs of the deep to shut up, and over days all the water receded into what we now know as the oceans that take up seventy-four percent the surface of the earth, but their depth or deepest depths have yet to be fully explored, while we live only on the surface of the remaining twenty-six percent and, in fact, less than that, for we do not occupy the high mountains or the great polar regions. All that water receded from the mountains first because of the hand of God. Once again, we are faced with God's Almighty Power and man's powerlessness, for Noah could do nothing but float around in the ark until God did something about his situation. Here is the same situation we find ourselves in today. The earth is the Lord's and everything in it. Moses told Pharoah those very words when he said he would pray for the hail to stop. The Psalmist used those same words, and Paul used them in his letter to the Corinthians. Three times we are told the earth is the Lord's and everything in it, all who live on it, meaning us. God is in sovereign control of all things concerning the earth. Man has absolutely zero control concerning the earth, the land, water, and the atmosphere, for man lives on the earth and is completely under the control of God.  He caused the flood, He caused the rain, the springs of the deep to open and he caused the deep to shut up and the rain to stop and the water to recede. There is no doubt in our minds, and our spirit, that our God reigns. Our lives are in his hands, we are his to do with as he desires, for God reigns. He is the one who makes our path straight, He shines the light onto our feet, directing the way we should go, for our God reigns. We are simply to follow Jesus, for our God reigns.