When Sin Had Scarred the World

In the first book of our Bible, Genesis, after the two creation stories, we get a series of mythical stories that show us how sin entered the world. Starting with Adam and Eve desiring to know the world like gods, the jealousy of Cain over Able, the corruption of the son's of God who saw that the human women were fair that they took them as their own (property), we see that God becomes sorry for what became created.

But someone on earth found favor in the sight of God (Noah). 

Then we have the tower of Babel and the shenanigans of the people trying to reach where God resides.

But someone on earth found favor in the sight of God (Abram).

Over and over again we see in this grand story of God and creation, when all seems lost, God finds a person, a people, a way to heal the world. And its seems that we are in that age old place where sin has scarred the world and we wonder, who will God find to continue our faithful journey.

I personally wonder about this. For if it is to fall to me to be that one who finds favor in the sight of God, I am not sure that I am able to do what is called for. Am I ready to build and ark and abandon everything? Am I able to pick up my family and move to a place that God has yet to show me? To trust fully in what God is up to? Especially in a world where there seems to be no escaping the evil that has befallen us.

But then... but then...

God changed how we are to be in the world. We all have found favor in the sight of God through our savior, Jesus. It is no longer me and the world. It is me, and you, and God. It is "WE." And when I remember this I recall 1 Corinthians where Paul says:

Consider your own call, siblings: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, in order that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord." 

What a relief to realize that it all does not depend on my wisdom, or my strength, or my faithfulness. That in Jesus I have all that I need. Besides, when sin had scarred the world, God sent his only Son so that we may not perish. Really, God did not send the Son to condemn us, but save us.

Amen. Amen. Amen.