GOD HAS HIS WAYS by Robert Soto

GOD HAS HIS WAYS by Robert Soto

January 28, 2010

Genesis 6:11-13 "Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people..."

The last two days I have been sharing a few thoughts about population and the creation. I have often wondered what happens when man abuses the system. I know that when man abuses the laws set before them by man, they will be punished. If you speed down the freeway, you will be cited if you get caught. If you kill another, you will go to prison. If you abuse the system, man has created ways to make sure we learn our lesson and it is not repeated again. I wonder if God has the same for man when it comes to the world and creatures He has created? I know of at least twice in the Bible where mankind abused the system and it is said that God the Creator had to deal harshly with mankind. First of all, there is the account of a worldwide flood that came against mankind because, as Moses wrote, "God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways."

Then you would think they would have learned their lesson but four chapters later, man is standing before his great accomplishments and has failed to spread throughout the whole earth and multiply. Instead they had conglomerated in one place, spoke one language and built a tower in honor not of God the Creator but in honor of their own accomplishments. So sometimes God the Creator has to nudge us a little to remind us that He is still God. With Noah, it was the flood. With the people of Babel, they were forced to be scattered and the people groups of the world that had tried to stick together found that God the Creator had confused their language, so they were forced to spread out and multiply. Just as man has set his laws to make sure law and order is kept on earth, so God the Creator has established His laws so that when man decides to go his own way and not God's way as He intended us to do, we will have to answer to God.

Robert Soto, Lipan Apache and pastor of:

McAllen Grace Brethren Church
The Native American New Life Center
Chief of Chiefs Christian Church