Moment of Meditation: God Is Grieved (Genesis 6:6-7)

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him to His heart. So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” (Genesis 6:6-7) How sad it is that the crown of God’s creation becomes something He regrets making! Something He wants to blot out! How great is man’s wickedness? God wants to blot out everything from the face of the earth because of it! Just as the entire world was cursed with Adam, so also everything created from the dust of the earth is condemned in the Flood. Sin grieves God’s heart. God “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4). We grieve God by forsaking Him with our sin. As we will see next time, only Noah found favor in His sight. Only Noah brings a spark of light in a dark, dark world. Amen.