Grace

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God… - Genesis 6v8-10

Grace. It is one of those words that can stand alone isn’t it? This is the first time that the word grace appears in the Bible and it comes at what, to say the least, is a pivotal moment.

To be honest, sitting here this morning I am having a hard time figuring out what I am going to say about grace. Where do I start with this key word? So much has been said in word and song that I really don’t know where to go.

Here we find a world that was only wicked, where every single thought of man ran to evil. We find a God grieving over what His creation had done. We sense impending doom. But we also find Noah, a just man who walked with God. God would have been fully justified in destroying this sinful world and everyone in it, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Sin reigned, but God’s amazing, marvellous, infinite, matchless grace appeared. The grace that is greater than all sin came on the scene.

How great was this grace? ‘Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’ (Romans 5v20-21) Where sin abounded grace abounded more. Where sin reigned grace could now reign.

I guess the best I can do is to go to a personal application of the universal situation described here from the book of Ephesians. Sin reigned supreme. We were conducting ourselves in the lusts of the flesh and fulfilling the flesh. We were by our very nature, just like those in Noah’s day, the children of wrath.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, while we were STILL dead in our sins, made us alive together in Christ. BY GRACE you have been saved!!

The grace that appears in Genesis 6 runs all the way though to the last verse in Revelation – ‘The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.’

But Noah found grace. Praise God that Roger found grace. May we each share that grace with others.