During the months Noah drifted on the sea, he must have begun to wonder whether God had forgotten him, his family and the animals as they floated like insignificant bits of refuse on the great tide.
We would have to say that, of course, God had never actually forgotten Noah, God never forgets anything. However, this misses the connection between God’s remembrance of Noah and showing in tangible ways that He remembered. Although Noah felt himself to be abandoned by God, God acted again! God spoke again! And Noah’s depression must have fled away like storm clouds after the sun had again begun to shine.
If you think you’re abandoned by God, hope is knowing that God will act again! And in the meantime, your job is to go on in faithful obedience to what He has already shown you. Do you know someone like that today? Are you in that state even as you read these words? If that is the case God has not forgotten. God remembers.
James Montgomery Boice, Th.D. was a Reformed theologian, Bible teacher, and pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia from 1968 until his death. He is heard on The Bible Study Hour radio broadcast and was a well known author and speaker in evangelical and Reformed circles. He also served as Chairman of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy for over ten years and was a founding member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
Boice received a diploma from The Stony Brook School (1956), an A.B. from Harvard University (1960), a B.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary (1963), a Th.D from the University of Basel in Switzerland (1966), and a D.D., (honorary) from the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church (1982).
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