When parents raise children, they usually have ways that they reward obedience and discourage disobedience. As cute as children are, and as much as they need encouragement, they are born sinners who need correction, or they will grow up and their unstrained sin will bloom into full blown rebellion. But, even when they deserve punishment for something they did wrong, it is good to periodically give them grace instead. Why? Because that’s the kind of ‘parent’ God is. God met Noah on Mt Ararat and showed him that type of grace. Genesis 8 contains 4 aspects of his divine favor that applies to us too.