After Adam and Eve’s disobedience,
and thus the first sin, things to continued to get much, much worse. In fact,
their own son Cain murdered his brother Abel and sin continued to be passed
down through all the generations thereafter.
Genesis 6:5 says “then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great
in the earth…” That sounds a lot like
our world today. Genesis goes on to say
that God was sorry that he made man on the earth and that He was grieved in His
heart. Sin grieves God’s heart – it did
then and does today. God purposed to
destroy all creation – with a flood, but Genesis says that Noah found grace in
the eyes of the Lord. God made a way to
save Noah and his family from that destruction and death. He instructed him to build an ark for his
family, two of every kind of animal and for any man that would turn from his
sin and have faith by stepping in the ark for salvation from the flood. No other man made that repentance and so
every living creature outside of the ark when the flood waters came was
destroyed. Noah and his family were
saved from death because of their faith and obedience to God. You see, the ark and the salvation that it
gave to the living creatures inside is a picture of Jesus Christ and the
salvation He provides us from the destruction and death from our sins. Turning to Jesus and turning from your sinful
ways and putting full faith in Him will save you from the destruction and death
of your sins. After the flood, God made
a promise – covenant – with Noah that He would never again destroy the earth
with flood waters. He did that with the
sign of a rainbow which we can still see in these days. Let your Sparkie tell you all about
this. You can read of this in Genesis
chapters 5-9. You are welcome to join us
anytime at Sparks. You can also check
out the AWANA program at www.fbc.littletonil.org
Mrs. Jennifer Schroeder, Mrs. Barb Stein.
