Wickedness in the World

   I usually only post Bible verses on my Sunday blog posts. But sometimes God has a different idea for me.

The end of the old year, I finally finished reading through the entire Bible, for the second time. It took me three years. A few days into the new year, I decided I would jump right back in, reading it again.

These were the verses I read from Genesis the other night.

   The Lord 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. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” (Genesis 6:5-8, New International Version)

My heart cries out for – not only the entire human race – but for God also. How He must grieve to see what we have done to the world He so lovingly created and how He must grieve even more to see what we are doing to each other.

I have no words. I only have His words.

   The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” (Genesis 8:21-22, NIV)

I am praying for us all.