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A Rainbow Covenant:
*“And God Remembered”*
*Genesis 8:1*
 
When I got up this morning I discovered new freedoms.
I could set my alarm louder than usual.
I could turn on my light.
I didn’t have to stumble stealthily through the dark.
My wife is in Montreal visiting our daughter and her family.
However, I do not like the price of these so-called freedoms.
I much prefer to have my wife presence and to consider her when I get up earlier than she does.
Theresa’s only gone for a few days but I miss her and we phone once or twice a day.
One important role my wife has is to help me remember!
Theresa, where did I leave…?
Of Theresa, what is the name of the new person in church?
We need ways to remember, don’t we?
What tricks (or methods) do you use to remind yourself of an important event – or a persons name?
·       Leave notes around the house
·       Tie a string around your finger
·       Leave a message for yourself on the answering machine
·       Use special techniques for memorization
 
God speaks of himself as remembering – as if He might forget!
God uses human terms to describe Himself.
He wants us to understand some attributes about our unknowable God.
Only as He reveals Himself will we know God – even though our knowledge of God is still very limited.
Gen 8:1  /“God remembered Noah”/ and events turned around.
Everything changed when God ‘remembered’.
God remembered Noah…
What a statement!
A statement of relationship.
God – creator of the universe,
                      God, all knowing, all powerful
                             God who is totally other.
God remembered Noah and this was the turning point in the Flood story.
The story began with great tension.
There was a total disconnect between God’s intention for His creation and the way creation has refused to embrace that dream of God.
The world had betrayed God’s intention and was described as:
·       Wicked
·       Evil
·       Corrupt
·       And filled with violence
 
And God made a decision:  /“So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth— men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air— for I am grieved that I have made them."”/
(Ge 6:7 NIVUS)
 
God holds an expectation for His world and He will not abandon it.
God is serious.
He will send a flood to destroy all he has made.
But God is not described as an angry tyrant who is out for vengeance.
He is described as a troubled Parent – One who grieves over the alienation of His people.
He is deeply grieved and saddened over the decision of His people to abandon God and to abandon His purposes.
They turn instead everyone to their own way.
We know this in our own experience today.
The world around us, and the universe which we experience, disintegrates due to a lack of faithfulness to the plan of God.
When we line up our lives according to God’s intention for His creation, we move towards peace, harmony and unity.
When we decide to live according to our own understanding; when we place ourselves at the centre of our world, the world spins increasingly further apart.
God desires for us to enjoy the creation.
When he sees us going along the path of destruction He is grieved.
The Bible presents God in human terms – as a Person who
celebrates with His creation
and who hurts when creation rebels.
In the Flood story God is presented as One who has changed His mind.
He abandons what He has created.
But we see an alternative as we are introduced to Noah.
God does not abandon all.
He rescues what He has condemned.
God will bring His creation into a relationship of trust and obedience, 
but He will do so not by command
but by invitation; 
not by force
but through great anguish and grief on the part of God.
God loves – and when we spurn that love, God is deeply pained.
In this story of flood, destruction and death, we are introduced to Noah.
/“8 ¶ But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
9 This is the account of Noah.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.”/ (Ge 6:8-9 NIVUS)
 
And the refrain is repeated:
/“Noah did everything just as God commanded him.”/
(Ge 6:22 NIVUS)
/“And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.”/
(Ge 7:5 NIVUS)
/ “… as God had commanded Noah.”/ (Ge 7:9 NIVUS)
 
Noah stands as an example to us today.
Perhaps we might want to describe our world as corrupt as in the days of Noah.
Noah calls to us still: reminding us that faithfulness towards God is possible even in the midst of the downward spiral of evil in our modern world.
God chose to rescue Noah and his family from the Flood destruction.
With Noah a new creation is begun.
Life begins again and with this new creation God has a new resolve.
He will create something new
and resolves within Himself to never destroy by Flood again.
[When I chose to preach this morning on the story of the Flood I had forgotten that I preached on this passage just last year – June 1st, 2008 – not even a year ago.
I did not remember!
J]
 
At that time we recognized that the Flood did not change the heart of man.
The very next account after the Rainbow Covenant, Noah sins.
After the Flood we read:
/“The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma [of Noah’s sacrifice] 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.”/
(Ge 8:21 NIVUS)
 
Since man’s heart has not changed, we know that salvation cannot come from within.
Our only hope come from God.
 
God is committed to us, and this commitment is intensified through the story of the Flood.
He will deal with us with unlimited patience.
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