The Deaf Devo from The Deaf Missions in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States "God's Promises" Bible Reading: Genesis 8:13-22 for Saturday, 17 September 2016Genesis 8:13 By the first day of the first month of the 601st year the water had dried up from off the earth; so Noach removed the covering of the ark and looked; and, yes, the surface of the ground was dry. 14 It was on the twenty-seventh day of the second month that the earth was dry.
(iv) 15 God said to Noach, 16 “Go out from the ark, you, your wife, your sons and your son’s wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing you have with you — birds, livestock and every animal that creeps on the earth — so that they can swarm on the earth, be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noach went out with his sons, his wife and his sons’ wives; 19 every animal, every creeping thing and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
20 Noach built an altar to Adonai. Then he took from every clean animal and every clean bird, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 Adonai smelled the sweet aroma, and Adonai said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, since the imaginings of a person’s heart are evil from his youth; nor will I ever again destroy all living things, as I have done. 22 So long as the earth exists, sowing time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
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Fall has arrived here in Iowa. The nights are cooler and the trees are beginning to change their colors.
I grew up in Iowa and have always loved fall time. But I lived in upstate New York for 18 years. The trees there have so much more color in the fall. Now that I am back in Iowa, I sometimes complain that the trees here are not as pretty as those in New York. But I need to remind myself that the truly wonderful thing is not the colors, but the fact that the seasons always change - just as God promised.
Verse 22 of our Bible Reading tells us that after Noah and his family left the boat, God told Noah, "As long as the earth continues, there will always be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and hot, summer and winter, day and night on earth." We can know that the seasons will change because God promised it!
God has also promised that Jesus will come again. We can depend on that promise, too![JK]
"You saw Jesus carried away from you into heaven.
He will come back in the same way you saw him go."[Acts 1:11b]
PRAYER: Father, thank You for always keeping Your promises. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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