Understanding God: He Starts Afresh
So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. – Genesis 9:1
Another lesson we can learn from God’s attributes is that He starts afresh. He is not a God who is afraid to appraise performance and then use the insights learned from there to start afresh or anew.
The scenarios leading to the flood that wiped out the entire earth represent an example of God taking a dispassionate look at the evolving dynamics of His own works, particularly the human race, and admitting to Himself that they had metamorphosed into something entirely different and unrecognizable from His original intent, thus necessitating the need for a system format, a total cleanup of sorts so that He could rebuild.
The flood episode that followed this realization was God doing something practical about eliminating a faulty or defective product line He had in hand in the form of humans and other live forms around then. With the deluge, God wiped out everything, except for Noah, his family the animals and birds that were housed with them in the ark.
After the flood, however, and with everyone else and everything else gone, except those preserved in the ark, God made a fresh start. He started with the remnants in the ark. With them, He started His own version of Project Rebuild by blessing humankind, represented by Noah and his family, and then setting new rules of engagement for them, as seen in Genesis 9:1-17. If you compare this passage with Genesis 1:26-31, when God started the first project, you will see striking similarities between the two instances.
The important lesson here is that God, in His omniscience, did not hesitate to admit that His process had gone awry and contrary to expectations at some point and then moved to start again, afresh and anew. As Henry Ford famously said, “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
Therefore, if God can admit mistakes as to His works (Genesis 6:5-7) and see the need to redo the whole thing all over, what makes us think we can do without?
Selah!
Also read:
- Understanding God: He Honors Parental Decrees, Good or Bad
- The Ordinance of Firstfruits (2): Debunking the Myths
- Be Gentle In Judgement
- Opened and Closed
- Coming Out of my Debts
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