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Genesis chapter 8 verses 21 and 22

and when the Lord smell the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, I will never again

curse the ground because of man.

For the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.

Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.

This picture of God's promise after the flood is a reminder of the faithfulness of God.

Even in those last phrases like seed time and harvest cold and heat summer and winter day and night

Like these are things that I think we almost take for granted like we know that it's going to be

daytime for a certain amount of time and there's going to be night and then day is

going to come back. Like we know it's going to come back but it doesn't just naturally come back.

God's the one who brings it back like summer and winter.

Okay, there's winter time and it's like really cold and we're like oh I just really want to get

to the summer and we know summer's coming like it's not going to stay

freezing cold I guess for some people who might be listening to this in some parts of the world it stays a lot colder for a lot longer.

But in most places like you know okay summer's coming or other

places it's like really hot all the time, but I was talking with somebody, a friend of mine who lives in part of the Horn of Africa the other day and it is blazing hot

and there's like a reprieve for a couple months during the year where I mean they

call it winter but it's just because it gets under a hundred degrees but it sure

does feel good when it gets under a hundred degrees but that doesn't happen just naturally, like this happens because God

in his faithfulness brings about seasons and he brings about daytime and evening new days and all of this is a part of his

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