Just In Time

Song: Without Him

Scripture: Genesis 6:1-22

The Bible reveals that God has done everything that an all-powerful, all-loving, all-wise God could possibly do to save sinners.

God gave man one law in a perfect paradise and man sinned. God left man alone to suffer the consequences of sin and he sinned to the extent that “every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” God purged the earth with a flood and started over again; the puddles had barely dried, when man sinned yet again. God gave man a law that dotted every “i”
and crossed every “t,” a law that isolated him from the other nations of the earth, and man sinned still more.

God tried everything. No man can argue that God was too hard, or that God was too lenient, or that He should have given man another chance, or that He should have done more to explain the rules. He did all that to no avail. Man sinned every time. Imagine if God had left man alone just one more generation in the days of Noah. If Noah was the only man worth redeeming in his time, would anyone have “found favor” before God in the next generation? Not likely. God intervened at the right time and through Noah and by means of the flood instilled a healthy reverence, fear, and gratitude in the hearts of Noah’s sons. If God’s judgment had not come just in time, His mercy might not have come ever.

Praise God for His timing.

Jason Moore