Several years ago on a blog that I have stopped writing on I wrote a post about God's feelings toward our sin. For a long time I felt like God was angry with me whenever I would sin, but over the years that thought has changed. I think that when we sin God is saddened. Here in Genesis 6, as God surveys the wickedness of man, man that He has created and invited into relationship with Himself, God is grieved. The Hebrew word is `atsab and it means "to hurt, pain, grieve, displease, vex".
When people sin, choosing to live in wickedness it hurts God, paining Him, and causes Him to grieve. It displeases Him that we choose to live in a way that is harmful to ourselves, harmful to others, and vexes Him as to why we would choose anything other than Him, as He offers us what is absolutely best, better than anything we could possibly imagine. Our sin saddens God greatly, and there is only so much of it He will put up with.
God is grieved by sin, and as a result He blots out sin. God was sorry that He had made man because of how man chose to live. God was deeply wounded by the decisions that they had made, and so God decided that enough was enough.
Let us refuse to live in a way that grieves the heart of God. Let us choose to choose Him, rejecting wickedness, and embracing all that He has for us.
Fight the lion, 1 Peter 5.1-11
TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY!
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