Genesis 8:13a By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth.
By our standards, at 601, Noah was ancient. However, he still had another 350 years to go before he died. I wonder, though, whether he balked at starting over at his age. Did he think that he had done all the changing he needed to do, that he was just cruising into old age? Is that a modern idea? Probably.
Genesis 8:13b Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Was Noah excited about the possibilities when he saw the ground was now dry and so very, very changed? Was he grumbly about all that he had lost? Was he just focused on what needed to be done to inhabit this new landscape? Was he terrified of the unknown that he faced?
Genesis 8:14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
Precious Savior, Change can be hard. It can also be exciting. Help us to *try* to embrace the changes we face, knowing that You go before us and behind us, that You are with us always, even through upheaval and change. Help us to root ourselves so deeply in You that change loses its sting. Amen.
Genesis 8:15-16 Then God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
Have a blessed day.