And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. (Genesis 6:6-8 ESV)
The Weight of God’s Love
My new eyeglasses automatically turn into sunglasses. When the sun is a little bright, the lenses protect my eyes a little bit. When the sun is brighter, the lenses are able to increase the protection. According to the (humorously exaggerated) description by my optometrist, if I drove into the sun, those lenses would still darken enough!
I will not be testing that.
But God’s love does work that way. His benevolent, sacrificial, and unconditional love protects His people from sin’s depravity. Whether it is a little bit of sin, or sin like during the time of Noah.
More specifically, Christ Jesus protects us from sin, through His life, His death, and His Life.
God’s love covers a multitude of sins. And sin does not cover God’s love.
The amount of sin described in these verses is immense. It was so bad that God regretted creating humans. But then, we read that Noah found favor in God’s eyes. That’s another way of saying that God loved Noah. And that love of God saved the world, even though it was terrible.
Man sins… God loves. And His love is more than enough.