Day 3 Bible Reading
Genesis 5 & 6, Matthew 3, Psalm 3
Genesis 5: 28-29 (ESV)
“When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son and
called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed, this
one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our
hands.””
This passage from Genesis 5 stood out to me today because I
think it means that God will use ordinary people to do his work. Noah came from
cursed ground. He wasn’t great or special in any way. In Genesis 6, all we know
of Noah is “was a righteous man, blameless in his generation”. He followed God’s
law, but he was a sinner like anyone else. Lamech was also prophesying when he
said Noah will bring relief from the painful toil of our hands. The toil of our
hands I believe is referring to sin. God chose Noah and he made a covenant with
Noah to protect him and his family from the flood waters. The arc that Noah
built I think can also be seen as a symbol for the coming of Jesus Christ. Christ
will be the one to save us from our sins, protecting us from the flood of the
sins that have the ability to destroy not only our world but our life itself.