January 2
GENESIS 4:1-5:32; 1 CHRONICLES 1:1-4; GENESIS 6:1-22
It's not hard to imagine the hopeful expectation that would have come at Adam and Eve's firstborn son. They must have wondered if this would be the one who would crush the head of the serpent and be their savior. Yet as we read today he not only failed to crush Satan's head but would actually crush his brother's head in an act of murder. How quickly sin and its effects spread through everything. By the time of Noah God saw "how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time." God's character demands justice for sin. We see this judgment in the form of sending Cain away, in the shortening of life spans and the sending of a flood. Even in judgment, there is grace. God spares Noah and his family by making a covenant with them. This covenant with Noah is ultimately a shadow of the covenant we experience through Jesus. Since Jesus took our sin upon himself, we can experience God's grace. The promise of this 'new covenant' is that in place of judgment we can receive forgiveness and reconciliation with God. We live in a world that mirrors that of Cain and Noah, with the pervasiveness of sin but we have the hope that the snake crusher who has already come once will return and make everything perfect like it was in the Garden of Eden. We fight against the power of sin but can rely on the greater power of God to overcome.
Father God, thank you that your grace is greater than my sin. Thank you that you have given me your Spirit to allow me to overcome the power of sin, have given me your Son to overcome the penalty of sin and thank you that one day Christ will return and remove the presence of sin. Help me today to fight against sin in my life. Amen.
Question: What sin in your life do you need to fight against today?
It's not hard to imagine the hopeful expectation that would have come at Adam and Eve's firstborn son. They must have wondered if this would be the one who would crush the head of the serpent and be their savior. Yet as we read today he not only failed to crush Satan's head but would actually crush his brother's head in an act of murder. How quickly sin and its effects spread through everything. By the time of Noah God saw "how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time." God's character demands justice for sin. We see this judgment in the form of sending Cain away, in the shortening of life spans and the sending of a flood. Even in judgment, there is grace. God spares Noah and his family by making a covenant with them. This covenant with Noah is ultimately a shadow of the covenant we experience through Jesus. Since Jesus took our sin upon himself, we can experience God's grace. The promise of this 'new covenant' is that in place of judgment we can receive forgiveness and reconciliation with God. We live in a world that mirrors that of Cain and Noah, with the pervasiveness of sin but we have the hope that the snake crusher who has already come once will return and make everything perfect like it was in the Garden of Eden. We fight against the power of sin but can rely on the greater power of God to overcome.
Father God, thank you that your grace is greater than my sin. Thank you that you have given me your Spirit to allow me to overcome the power of sin, have given me your Son to overcome the penalty of sin and thank you that one day Christ will return and remove the presence of sin. Help me today to fight against sin in my life. Amen.
Question: What sin in your life do you need to fight against today?
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