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4. Gratefulness is necessary for a reset.

Noah could have sulked about the fact that God was wiping out his
friends and everything that he was familiar with when He decided to do
away with the earth, but he did not. In fact, Noah was so thankful for
the way that God had saved him and his family that he built an altar to

the Lord and made a sacrifice to God of some of the clean animals. He
could have eaten the clean animals but, he made a sacrifice. When God
saw Noah’s worship; He was pleased and made a promise never again to

curse the ground because of human beings.

The moral of the story is that you must be grateful to experience a

successful reset. You cannot stay down or sulk (for too long) because
God allowed the demise of that thing in your life. Taking on a grateful
attitude about the fact that God has new and greater plans for you
demonstrates your appreciation and trust in God.

5. A reset revives God's plan (not cancel it).

Having to go through a reset or restart something in your life does not
cancel the plans that God has for you. Oftentimes, the reset is necessary

to revive God’s original plan for you. In the ninth chapter of Genesis,
God told Noah to be fruitful and multiply. However, this was not the
first time that God had gave someone those very instructions. In the very
first chapter of Genesis, God gave Adam those very same instructions;
to be fruitful and multiply. You see, it was always God’s plan for

mankind to expand by being fruitful and multiplying. Adam’s
disobedience to God’s instructions not to eat from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil was the beginning of much corrupt,

detestable sin upon the earth; causing God to have to do a total reset by
destroying the earth with a flood. So, the reset was necessary to revive

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