Genesis 6:6. God in Pain

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Genesis 6:6 “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart” 

What a poignant portrait of God! The Creator whose name is Love looked at the creatures He had made in His own image and was so disappointed by their systemic corruption that He said “I wish I never made them.” God actually had that moment. The pain was so intense to see their vile, self-destructive wickedness that He thought I should have never done it. It would have been better all the way around. It’s too bad I ever made them. 

What would you feel if you were a designer and the things you made were stolen from you and used for the exact opposite of what you intended and designed them for? Now imagine if your children were kidnapped, brainwashed, and trained to hate you, to be thugs and serial killers. Your anger and anguish would be a finite sampling of what God suffered, and what He suffers still as He looks down on this world. God is infinite. Therefore His capacity to endure pain must be infinite. We have no idea how much He has suffered, how much we have caused Him pain over the history of this world. 

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Ezra James
The Word of God is bread from heaven. God sent it, but we must gather it, appreciate it, digest it, and live by it. These days it is increasingly scarce. Many are starving for it and don't know it because they keep feasting on bad bread that doesn't satisfy. But if we would learn to carefully gather up the fragments of the True, Heavenly Bread of Life, we would always enjoy a feast of crumbs, because even God's crumbs are miracles mighty to save (Mark 7:24-30). ESPAÑOL: La Palabra de Dios es pan del cielo. Dios lo envió, pero debemos recogerlo, apreciarlo, digerirlo y vivir por él. Hoy en día es cada vez más escaso. Muchos están muriendo de hambre por falta de él sin saberlo porque se alimentan de pan falso que no satisface. Pero si aprendiéramos a recoger cuidadosamente los fragmentos del Verdadero Pan Celestial, Pan de Vida, siempre disfrutaríamos de un banquete de migajas, porque hasta las migajas de Dios son milagros poderosos para salvar (Marcos 7:24-30).