Back to the Beginning: Genesis 8:20-9:29

Genesis 8:20-9:29
Open up your Bible or open up the link above to read God’s Word today.

In the story of Noah, we’ve seen God grieved. We’ve seen His grace toward Noah, whom He favored. We saw His wrath poured out and Noah remembered. Today, we see Him soothed by the aroma of sacrificial worship.

Don’t miss the magnitude of the sacrifice Noah placed on the altar he built to the Lord, after disembarking the ark.

All the animals of the earth were destroyed. The only living land animals remaining were in the ark. As an act of worship, Noah took from his limited supply of clean animals and clean birds and sacrificed a portion to God.

Do you give sacrificially to God? Or is your worship limited by a spirit of scarcity? a fear of not enough?

What Noah offered to God could not be readily replaced, he had all there was. Wouldn’t it have made more sense for Noah to wait a few months… years… before killing the clean animals? Assuring an ample supply, just in case?

No. Noah had some serious personal experience with God’s provision. Trusting Him over the years of building the ark, the gathering of animals and supplies, the flood, the waiting and wondering. Noah knew God would never leave him without enough; he had first-hand knowledge of His faithfulness. He deserved to be worshiped wholeheartedly!

And God’s response to the sacrificial worship, an offering poured out from a heart of trust: