“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease” (v22). When the flood waters receded, God told Noah and his family to “go out” with all the animals and to “be fruitful and multiply on the earth” (v17). Noah’s family had a real future, and so did the entire earth. Even though God knew that humanity had a bent toward sin (v21), He re-covenanted with Noah’s family to allow life to continue. God, the creator of life, called on people again to embrace life.

“Then Noah built an altar to the Lord” (v20). God’s desire is that we embrace life – even on our difficult earth – not on our own terms, but in fellowship with Him.