Genesis 8:20–22
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
When you have just witnessed the total deconstruction of the world, when you have been cooped up in a floating menagerie for over a year, when you step out onto a muddy, silent, and utterly desolate planet, what is the first thing you do? Do you scout for a good place to build a house? Do you take a long walk just to feel solid ground under your feet? Our pragmatic, modern sensibilities would point us toward survival, toward rebuilding, toward getting things done. But Noah, the second father of mankind, does something that our frantic and godless age would find entirely impractical. The first act in the new world was not agriculture, or architecture, or exploration. The first act was to acknowledge the God who judges and the God who saves. Before Noah could receive the covenant of common grace that would govern the new world, he had to respond to the special grace that had saved him from the old one.