Gen
6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man
on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
The
word, "repented" here implies that God breathed a deep, sorrowful
sigh that He had made man.
The
omniscient Creator knew what centuries of sinful ugliness at its despicable
worst would do to dislodge the fellowship of man from his Maker.
In
a ponderous moment, He regretted that His pure act of creation that brought a
sigh of "that's good!" has been so marred by free-will's rebellion.
Yet,
grace was given even then as His servant Noah found grace in the eyes of the
Lord and the world was spared and saved by one man's faith.
Here,
on the eve of advent, in another age where sin is just as rampant, we think of
another man's work which spared and saved the world of those which would
believe. Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. I can
only imagine that, as His Son hung on a cross, God sighed again and
contemplated the cost of redeeming His creation.
"And
the Word became flesh, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth."
Jn 1:14
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