After the great flood that drowned the old world God said:
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:22
God declared that going forth the seasons would continue in regular cycles. After the chaos of the flood God wanted to reassure the frightened remaining inhabitants of earth and their future descendants that life would continue. I can imagine that to Noah and his family the receding flood waters were a welcome sight but as the waters began to drain away the landscape emerged battered and bruised. Nothing was where it had been and all traces of the old world were gone.
As Noah and his family surveyed the devastated scenery before them they must have wondered how they would go forward. How would they make their way in this new but yet broken world? God had a plan.
God always has a plan. Life may not have been easy for our ancient ancestors as they emerged from the rafters of the ark but God was still with them. In time crops were planted and homes were built. In time cities emerged and culture developed. And through all of this seedtime and harvest continued. God continued. God was there. He is alway here, guiding and protecting those that still call on His name.
Even now as the world continues to reel and the storms of life batter our lives God is here. He has promised to be with us saying:
…I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Matthew 28:20
And God hasn’t just promised to be with us but to give us a life. He says:
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11
An expected end. An end that can be anchored to the certainty of the cross. We are not adrift in this life if we have Jesus. If we will look around we will see that the waters are receding and while there is a lot of damage God is here to rebuild. He is here to restore. And someday He will come again to return you and I to the world that was lost: a world where love is shared and the landscape is merely an extension of God’s beauty.
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