Everything died

My,my. I've never seen so much water in places there wasn't water before.

Makes me think of someone named Noah.

In Genesis 6, we read, "The flood continued forty days and the waters rose and lifted the ship high over the Earth. The waters kept rising, the flood deepened on the Earth, the ship floated on the surface. The flood got worse until all the highest mountains were covered—the high-water mark reached twenty feet above the crest of the mountains. 

"Everything died. Anything that moved—dead. Birds, farm animals, wild animals, the entire teeming exuberance of life—dead. And all people—dead. Every living, breathing creature that lived on dry land died; he wiped out the whole works—people and animals, crawling creatures and flying birds, every last one of them, gone. Only Noah and his company on the ship lived. The floodwaters took over for 150 days."

I'm struck by the line, "Everything died."

What do we do next, what would we do next, knowing that all the folks we bartered with for food and luxuries were in fact drowned, one of the most terrible ways to die. Dead. Everything died. All the birds, goats, sheep, dogs, cats, you name it the water covered it. Dead. And just so you'd know, all people -- dead.

It's been raining where I live since, oh, Tuesday I believe. It is Friday. The waters are deep where there are places that normally have water. We drove over to the local reservoir and the water there had taken boat houses and such and threatens to take the water found there right on in to houses.

But even with that amount of water, it's nowhere near, "Everything died." We have to use our ability to sort through things to even begin to get it. The story is not predicted on water. The story begins and ends with God wanting everything dead because He couldn't find an honest righteous man. And that brings us, uh, shortness of breath. Why? Because God allowed everything to die. 

But then there was Noah. Other than Noah's family -- three estranged sons and such. Everything doesn't mean every thing. Noah took two by two in the animal kingdom, and then every brother had a wife and there would be tremendous family growth.

Because God is a loving God, even when the results don't show that love so much. 

Thank you God for leaving a remnant for us so that we could live.

In the end every thing means all but ... Thank God