“GOD REMEMBERED NOAH!”

 Genesis 8:1: 20-22                          (ESV)

[1] But “GOD REMEMBERED NOAH” and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And GOD MADE A WIND BLOW over the earth, and the waters subsided.

[20] Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. [21] And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in HIS HEART, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. [22] While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.””

When I observed these Scriptures recently, my mind began to wonder IF GOD were even capable of forgetting any of HIS CREATION???  So I visited a website I often do to see what other translations offered about “GOD REMEMBERED NOAH”?  Almost ALL of the interpretations says “GOD REMEMBERED NOAH”, with the exception of a couple.  One said “GOD kept Noah in mind” and the other “GOD had not forgotten Noah”!  For this Brain Damaged Believer, this final translation OPENED my EYES to TRUTH!

It wasn’t as if GOD had been distracted by the flood that covered the entire earth.  HE then “MADE A WIND BLOW over the earth, and the waters subsided”!  The final verse of the previous chapter says “And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.”  It wasn’t as if GOD had forgotten Noah and his fellow survivors, it was that man (Noah and his family) might have been uncomfortable on an ark with destruction ALL around them and they were probably ready for some relief???  Regardless, that “GOD REMEMBERED NOAH” demonstrated that HE is merciful and has compassion.  

“GOD REMEMBERED NOAH” says to me that GOD also REMEMBERS me when I am in hopeless, destitute situations.  GOD can PROMISE, but until WE BELIEVE there is NO FAITH demonstrated!  REMEMBER, “without FAITH it is IMPOSSIBLE to please HIM” (Hebrews 11:6) and if “GOD REMEMBERED NOAH”, HE will CERTAINLY not forget us!!!