After a long, long time Noah and his family had dry ground to walk on again. All the animals got out. Noah built an altar and sacrificed some of the clean animals and clean birds on it. "The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart: 'Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.'"
Wow. God makes another promise. It's pretty interesting that the sacrifices Noah made were a "pleasing aroma" to God. I wonder what I can do to please God in a similar way? I wonder what implications of the final and ultimate sacrifice (of Jesus on the cross) have for me? Are there implications of that sacrifice that I haven't thought of yet? If God was pleased with Noah, then how does He feel about me in light of the sacrifice that Jesus made was on my behalf? hmmm...
My deadline clock says 1 hour, 36 minutes, and 58 seconds left of deadline. I'm not exactly that far away with my workload. If my load was measured, I think it would read 3 days left... We'll see how it works out.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at September 22, 2006 10:18 AM