God Had a Plan B - Daily Inspiration

When God started out this journey between him and mankind, do you think he expected man to become like they did? Did he expect Eve to eat the apple from the tree of life after he told both her and Adam not to partake? And if he did realize mankind was going to turn out this way, do you ever wonder why he even bothered with us? It would all eventually lead to this, right?

For every Sodom & Gomorrah, you'd think there was a town of people who lived their days in exactly the way God intended. But that's not the way it turned out.

Genesis 6:13
So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

He wiped the slate clean, destroyed the world and saved only Noah and his family. Bummer. I think that's a bit extreme, but then again, I don't have the wisdom of God Almighty.

Genesis 6:5-6
The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

God had a mighty anger going back then, didn't he? People weren't like they are today. Nephilim were in the land at that time. And people weren't living up to God's lofty expectations and now he was forced to start again.

When I think about God, I don't dwell on icky times like this. In times like this he shows us his power, his might, his all-knowingness. He shows that he is God and when you don't follow his ways, he has dire plans for you.

But the good news is, after this experience, God promised mankind that he'd never go to such extremes again.

Mankind was restarted by the righteous family of Noah. So, I guess we all started out with a better chance of being good and not ticking off God again. But in the end, God still needed a Plan B.

And that Plan B was Jesus.

God must have realized that no matter how hard we try we could never live up to his mighty expectations. We were born in sin and we continued to sin. That's why he sent Jesus. So that through his sacrifice we would all be cleaned from the sin God couldn't tolerate.

He gave us all a chance to accept it.

Do you think God knew about this Plan B way back in the beginning of creation? When he was breathing the universe into existence, did he know what was about to take place? How we would disappoint him?

And if he did, WOW!

My God has more patience than anything I can compare it to. He knew back in the beginning that having a relationship with us was so important he'd have to work hard for it.

But for us he made it simple. Ask Jesus into your heart and follow him.

Are there relationships in your life that you need to work a little harder on? Call on God and have him send down his almighty patience and the strength to deal with whomever you're struggling with. Ask God for your own Plan B. I know he'll make a way and guide you through it.

Psalm 54:4
Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me.