God remembered.

“And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.”

This is the first time that the word “remember” appears in the Bible and this section defines what this word means in the Bible. If we look at the context the first thing we notice is that God had not forgotten Noah and his family. God told Noah to build and ark and then He told Noah to go into the ark and God shut door so that they were safe. None of these actions indicate that God had forgotten Noah in any way. God does not forget under any circumstances even though God is slow to anger (Psalm 103: 8; 145: 8) Then why do we read that God remembered Noah? This simply means that God began to act towards saving Noah from the situation. Noah did everything that God commanded him and now he was in a position to be saved but he was in a big box on the top of a deep Flood. At this stage God allowed the waters to start abating. The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped; God’s judgment was complete. All the people that chose to reject God’s love had been given the destruction they chose but Noah was unable to live on God’s earth while it was covered with water. Noah, however, was saved.

Sometimes God remembers no more but He does not forget (Heb 8: 12; 10: 17). In His grace, God will remember sins and the iniquities of the no more because those sins and iniquities have been judged at Calvary. How wonderful when God chooses to remember no more. Every record of those sins and those iniquities has been blotted out for ever and cannot be recovered by and Divine legal authority. We can all live in the comfort of this wonderful knowledge, God does not forget and God is waiting to act for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose (Rom 8: 28) when the time is perfect.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)