Genesis 6:5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Interestingly, there is no mention of God "seeing" between Genesis 1 and 6. He says a lot to man, but it is as if when He is going to do something major, He sees. Something major needed to be done in Mankind. After the Fall, sin spread like wildfire, overtaking human society and almost everything in it. But God sees all and looked upon Noah in a favorable light. It does not say Noah was perfect, or even "very good," but in His mercy and grace, God saw him differently. God sees all of us. He is not comparing us to one another, but our lives do matter. He sees all the way into our hearts. What does He see in me?
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