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Genesis chapter 8, verses 21 and 22.

And when the Lord smelled 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. Well, 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 a 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 100 degrees but it sure does feel good when it gets under 100 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 promise to sustain creation, to not destroy creation

until the end, until the day when there's a new heaven and a new earth, which we're longing for

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