Understanding God: God of Product Recall and Fresh Beginnings
Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” – Genesis 6:5-7
Another lesson we can learn from God is that He was not afraid to admit a defect in His work and institute a product recall. Also, He was not afraid to take a drastic measure to correct the defects in His work and then start again afresh. He is a God of fresh beginnings.
From the Bible passage above, we see how God expressed regret for the unending but ever-increasing wickedness of humankind, a development which brought Him untold sorrow.
At this point, humans had mixed freely with aliens and the fallen angels. Therefore, they had morphed into a new breed of sorts, a rather horrible species comprising two fallen entities, the fallen heavenlies and the fallen earthlings in concert. In other words, the worst of the heavens had mingled with the worst of the earth, and they were reproducing on a large scale, widening the circle of wickedness. Thus, a defect was introduced in the original innocent creation that God made.
Even though God was longsuffering and endured the endless wickedness with the hope that humanity would turn around, there appeared to be no prospect of that happening, as they only kept getting worse, as seen below:
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. – Genesis 6:11-13
At this point, God had had enough and was ready to clear out the defective creatures He had on hand.
It takes a lot of courage to admit that one has made a mistake, particularly with a project or product in which one has invested a lot of resources. And you can imagine how vested God was in humans whose models He fashioned out of Himself and painstakingly formed in His own similitude and likeness.
However, the human race at that time, having mixed with aliens and fallen angels, had become corrupted and drastically different from the original creature that God made. So that meant there was a necessity for a product recall and the need to start afresh all over again. Thus, God ‘destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth’ (Genesis 7:23).
As easy as this may sound, it was a lot then, as it is in our days.
Selah!
Also read:
- Understanding God: He Does Not Hold Grudges Forever
- The Ordinance of Firstborn (8): Common Factors Among Firstborns that Succeeded
- ABC of Happiness
- Rounds
- Delivered from Drugs, Death and Destruction
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