The Dove Returns: Genesis 8:1-19

But God remembered Noah.

Three words that changed everything. God remembered. Not that he had forgotten—the Eternal One does not suffer amnesia—but that he turned his attention toward deliverance. The time of judgment was ending. The time of restoration had begun.

God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

The wounds in the earth sealed. The windows above shut. The water that had come from above and below began to drain, to evaporate, to find its proper place again.