Hope In The Rain: The Covenant With Noah

As we gather together with family over the course of this week, many of our homes will be filled with laughter and joy. Of course, even in the best of homes, we realize that few ever escape some form of trouble. Sadly, many are filled with brokenness that spills out into the world around them.From the beginning, the earth that God created was meant to be filled with goodness, and as we have seen in our last sermon series, men and women were instructed to take good care of it. However, before long, Adam and Eve brought trouble into their home and the whole human race, which spilled out into Cain murdering Abel and Lamech promoting vengeance as a way of life. By Noah’s time, the earth was filled with social disaster, corruption, envy, murder, lust, and more.The result was that God decided to do something about it. Justice would be administered. However, Noah found favor in the eyes of God, and he and his family would be spared through an ark that God told them to build. The God who promised to crush the serpent’s head would not give up on His promises!As we will see in our study together this week, all of the covenant promises of God point to the covenant of grace that we have in Jesus Christ. Christ was born at Christmas as God’s revelation of how we find favor with God and are saved from our sins. How? We have to board the “ark” that is Jesus Christ, through faith in his gracious love.As we gather for Thanksgiving this week and begin the journey of Advent, may we be reminded that when the floodwaters of sin rise, we can be thankful for the only One who saves us from drowning.Grace & Peace, Pastor Aaron