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Posted on: 8th Sep 2014
Genesis 6:5-6 (NKJV)
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Reflections:
Isn�t it amazing that the God of all creation walks close beside humanity and, in many cases, even changes his mind along the way. We find this attribute of God fairly common in the Old Testament. For instance, God created mankind only to find that the heart of man is wicked and incapable of reaching His standard. God then repented that he ever made mankind and destroyed the entire human race with a flood saving only eight people; Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives.
He then allowed mankind to begin anew only to fail Him over and over again. He would have destroyed the Israelites in the wilderness, more than once if Moses hadn�t reasoned with him until he changed God�s mind. Does God really change his mind? Can we change his mind? One thing�s for sure the Bible paints this picture rather clearly.
One of the most interesting situations in which God�s changed his mind occurred with King Hezekiah. God had decided that Hezekiah�s time to die had come (Isa 38:1-5). At hearing this shocking news, from the prophet Isaiah, Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and began to pray and reason with God weeping bitterly. Apparently it all made sense to God, because he decided to extended Hezekiah�s life another fifteen years.
Now the flip side to this of course is the thought that God is all knowing; able to see the end result of all things, therefore there is no need to ever change his mind. There are verses that seem to support this, such as Isaiah 42:9 and Daniel 2:28. And then there are those that believe that God, even though he knows the way it all ends, plays it out along with us. What do you think?
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