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Genesis chapter 8 verse 1

but God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark.

And God made a wind blow over the earth and the waters subsided.

As I read that verse, I want to camp out and pray according to the first four words in Genesis chapter 8, verse 1, but God remembered Noah.

What are we to think when we read that in the Bible?

Like, God remembered Noah.

Does that mean that God had forgotten Noah?

Like if I remember something, it's like it was out of my mind before and then I thought

about it, but that's not the way things work with the omniscient God of the universe.

So one of the things we see all throughout scripture

is God described in language that we understand,

but always remember that God is not like us in so many ways. Yes, we are made in his image,

but he is omniscient. The way he knows is entirely different than the way we know.

So why is that important?

As you read Genesis chapter 8, verse 1,

and we think about how to pray according to it,

God remembered Noah, what is the Bible saying there? It's not that God forgot Noah. What is the Bible saying there?

It's not that God forgot Noah,

in the middle of this storm and flood and the earth,

and God's doing all this over here and there

through the flood, and then he remembers oh wait a minute

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