God remembered his people

Read Genesis 8:1

The opening verse to chapter 8 begins rather interestingly, after God has sent his flood upon the Earth, he remembers Noah and all the animals. Can God forget things? Do I need to remind him of his promises so they don’t slip his mind?

It will often say God remembered his people, his promise or his covenant throughout the Old Testament, but the Hebrew idea of remembering in this sense is not forgetting and being brought back to mind. But rather God acting upon some promise he has previously made.

God promised to save his family from the flood waters, which wouldn’t be all that true if he left them and the water there. So God stops the water and uses a wind to disperse the water. Imagine what it would have been like in those 150 days, sitting there days on end with constant rain, not knowing when it would end as your old home and life are washed away.

This is an important lesson here for us. Sometimes it will feel like God has forgotten about you, left you in some rut and no longer cares for you. It feels like being out on the open water and there is nothing you can do, you must simply wait there.

What comfort is there in such seasons of life. God remembers. His promises only become hard to believe when it appears he has failed or forgotten to upkeep them. But yet God always remembers.

He knows the promises he has made, and he never forgets them. Though he may leave you for 150 days, or even like he did with Israel in Egypt it may be 400 years, but he will never forget and he will always fulfill his promises.

Take comfort in those seasons, when you are in the midst of the storm, with nothing around to bring you comfort, no way of escape, no tool that can bring you aid…God remembers.

He promised an offspring who would crush the serpent’s head (Genesis 3:15), and at the right time that promise was fulfilled.

Romans 5:6

⁶For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

The time was 4000 years later and it was just right, do not doubt God he will remember his promise to you at the right time, he is always faithful, never doubt that.

Questions:

Have you had seasons where you felt as though God has left you, that he was being unfaithful to his promises?
What promises of God have brought you comfort or encouragement lately?