Gratitude and Salvation
Gen 8:18 – 9:9
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord…the Lord smelled the sweet savor.
Gratitude. I’m just trying to think if there is another recorded expression of gratitude before this. God has saved me. As I step out of the ark, or the belly of a whale, or wake up from the darkest night, my heart is filled with gratitude. My new field of endeavor is a world of rich color and fragrant smells and abounding goodness.
The promise and hopefulness of this moment will forever be memorialized as I express gratitude. And the memory of God’s faithfulness will be my joy. And the joy of the Lord will be my strength.
The requirement is serious. I will one day give an accounting…for “in the image of God has man been made”.
What was left behind is so far gone, I can scarce remember it. I am saved! There is no lament.
