Genesis 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. This promise still holds good. It has never yet failed. It cannot fail, for it is the Word of God. 1. Common things are too often taken as matters of course. The Source and Author of them all is forgotten. 2. God not only orders all these things, maintaining them in constant succession, as He said He would, but He orders them in the best and wisest manner. He takes in at a glance the wants of all His creatures, foresees all the consequences, both near and far off, of what He does, and sends His dealings accordingly. A labouring man used to say, when he heard people complaining of the weather — "It is such weather as God sends, and therefore it pleases me." 3. But all this concerns the present life only. May we not learn something from the text concerning the life to come? The very words carry our thoughts on to the future state. "While the earth remaineth." This promise, then, sure as it is, is only for a time — "while the earth remaineth"; and the earth will not remain forever as it now is. A great change will come — a new heaven and a new earth. Then at length seed time and harvest will be no longer distinguished. 4. Not only the promise of the text, but every other promise that God has made, will be fulfilled. (F. Bourdillon, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. |
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