God Rules

God Rules
Read Genesis 7-8
 
Gen 7:4 “Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
 
GOD’s story of the Great Flood is very difficult, isn’t it? Is this a God you want to know? As he warned Noah of the judgment, do you think Noah had some sleepless nights? Do you think he asked, “Why, God?” Do you think Noah wondered, “Who are you, God, to do such a thing?” That would have been my response. Scared, questioning, wondering, “How could you destroy all these people, Lord?”
    Looking through Scripture, though, we will see God’s good rule. Think about it. Do you ever trust one who says, “No rules here!” Of course not. In a like manner, we could not trust a God who said, “Whatever!” With no rules there is no way to the true way.
    That’s why we praise and thank God his rules direct our “no-rules” hearts to himself. In the Great Flood, God cleansed the world with water. But mankind’s sin nature would still carry into the renewed world creation. Our righteous God then enacted his rule to cleanse the world with the blood of his one and only Son. In Christ, God’s judgment rules we are sinless. This is God’s eternal rule, with us forever into the New Creation. Think about that; when Jesus’ blood floods your soul, God’s rule saves you. 
 
Rejoice! Your rule-making God rules your heart forever.