This week we’re looking at the story of Noah’s Ark. To read the story in its’ entirety, you can visit: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%206-9&version=MSG
I love the end of the story, really. It’s about God making a promise to all of humanity. No matter how evil we could possibly get, there will be no more mass destruction of humans at God’s hands. And yet, people have done just that “in God’s name.” It disheartens me to think that the God that loves me so much, that offers me grace and redemption for all my failings and faults, has followers who continue to act in “an Old Testament kind of way.” Oh how I wish we could have had our forefathers follow the lines of the end of the story… ““I’ll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age, but I’ll never again kill off everything living as I’ve just done.” I wonder how many things around the world would have been done differently? I know that context – time and place and situations of things – is key in our history, but what if we didn’t focus on war and world domination and instead focused on living together as we are, sharing ourselves as who we are, and sharing power in the world. Oh, I know I am a dreamer, but I do wonder what the world would be like without war and weapons, without corrupt power (though as we learned in this story, evil is always hiding within us), and with a sense that we are all loved and cared for.
Is there anything in your life you would do or would have done differently if you approached it not from a place of fear or from a place of thinking that you’d do/know how to do better? Hmmmm
Here’s a song we love to do in church from time to time. “A place in the choir”
Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMulhmW4Y7Q
A prayer for us today:
Creating God, thank you for all that we have in the world. Thank you for the challenge of living with people who are different from us, and continue to help us understand and respect each other. Be in our hearts and minds in whatever we do and in wherever we go. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
I love the end of the story, really. It’s about God making a promise to all of humanity. No matter how evil we could possibly get, there will be no more mass destruction of humans at God’s hands. And yet, people have done just that “in God’s name.” It disheartens me to think that the God that loves me so much, that offers me grace and redemption for all my failings and faults, has followers who continue to act in “an Old Testament kind of way.” Oh how I wish we could have had our forefathers follow the lines of the end of the story… ““I’ll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age, but I’ll never again kill off everything living as I’ve just done.” I wonder how many things around the world would have been done differently? I know that context – time and place and situations of things – is key in our history, but what if we didn’t focus on war and world domination and instead focused on living together as we are, sharing ourselves as who we are, and sharing power in the world. Oh, I know I am a dreamer, but I do wonder what the world would be like without war and weapons, without corrupt power (though as we learned in this story, evil is always hiding within us), and with a sense that we are all loved and cared for.
Is there anything in your life you would do or would have done differently if you approached it not from a place of fear or from a place of thinking that you’d do/know how to do better? Hmmmm
Here’s a song we love to do in church from time to time. “A place in the choir”
Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMulhmW4Y7Q
A prayer for us today:
Creating God, thank you for all that we have in the world. Thank you for the challenge of living with people who are different from us, and continue to help us understand and respect each other. Be in our hearts and minds in whatever we do and in wherever we go. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
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