Fleshly corruption causes flood

Its crazy to me to be able to read the very words of God. And to even make that connection that the God that I pray to and worship and talk to is the God who was in these pages. Thats just crazy to me.

But anyways,
God was so unhappy with man at this point. He was grieved to his heart. He said that man was continually full of evil. God was so grieved by this that he said he was even sorry that he had ever created man.
That disturbed me this morning to read.
It literally broke my heart.
I mean, God created man in his own image. Its not something he had to do but something he wanted to do. He took such special importance in the way that he created us. He breathed life into man through his very nosrils.
Im sure this was something he was very proud of, his creation.
But man broke his heart from the beginning when man was decieved. We chose not to follow the way of God and not to be obediant. And from that fall corruption was continual. Our flesh causes corruption. "My spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh"
This thing called 'flesh', its not a good thing.
What was created to be good for the glory of the Lord has become our ultimate stumbling block.

So anyway, God was so grieved over man that he decided to wipe man out completely from thea earth.
He did however see favor in one man. Noah. The bible said he was a rihteous man who was blameless on the earth and who walked with the Lord.
God used Noah and told him his plans and Noah listened.

And so because of the wickedness of man, God wiped the earth clean.

But thankfully because of his promise and later because of his son, our sins have been forgiven by his grace.
I beleieve that God still gets upset with the sin in our life. That it even grieves his heart. But he sent Jesus to take our sins away so that I can now have a relationship with God through his spirit. I am so thankful of this.
This chapter is leading me to repentance because I do not want to continue to grieve my father.
I want to honor him and have a pure heart.
Its something I must do everyday so each day I can start new.
To bring glory to God every day is something I will strive for because he loves man more than we could ever even comprehend.
This chapter is clear that we do not deserve anything that the Lord has given us.

So Thank you Lord for Jesus and for the grace you have given me when I know I deserve nothing more than death and damnation.
But your mercy has sufficed once again.

Its November 4 and I am humbled.