Be
Fruitful
And Multiply
Then God said to Noah, "Go out of
the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you. Bring
out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh - birds and
animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth - so that they may
abound on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth." So Noah
went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. And every animal,
every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went
out of the ark by families.
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and
took every clean animal and of every clean bird, and
offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the LORD smelled the pleasing
odor, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground
because of humankind, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from
youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.
As long as the earth endures, seedtime
and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not
cease."
Genesis 8:15-22
The beauty of springtime flowers and the
regular changing of the seasons remind us of God's faithfulness. God promised
Noah and his family that he would never again cover the earth with water to
destroy every living creature. God has been faithful to that promise ever
since.
Thank God for His beautiful creation and
for His faithfulness in sustaining His world and us.
Look at the
wonder of creation and say,
"What a
wonderful God!"
Our
Daily Bread -