Remember the Promise
"You can't have a rainbow without a little rain." You've probably seen that saying before. I don't think I've ever met a person who didn't pause to appreciate the sight of a rainbow in the sky. Can you imagine what it must have been like to look up in the sky and see the very first rainbow?
In Genesis 9:12,13, 17 (CEV) God said, "The rainbow that I have put in the sky will be my sign to you and to every living creature on earth. It will remind you that I will keep this promise forever. When I send clouds over the earth, and a rainbow appears in the sky, I will remember my promise to you and to all other living creatures. Never again will I let floodwaters destroy all life. When I see the rainbow in the sky, I will always remember the promise that I have made to every living creature. The rainbow will be the sign of that solemn promise."
After all that rain. All that loss. When Noah and his family finally emerged from the Ark, with all of that uncertainty and maybe even some anxiety, there in the sky was the most unusual, spectacular sight. A rainbow. A sign of the presence of sunshine and rain. And a sign that even today, all of these thousands of years later, God still keeps His promises to us.
I heard an interesting take on life's struggles that we go through and the blessings we receive every day. They said "blessing is not an escape from struggle. The man paralyzed (in the New Testament) couldn't have received the blessing of healing without the struggle of paralysis. The blessing wasn't the healing. The blessing was the whole journey of that struggle. Sometimes we may not see the fruit of the blessing this side of heaven."
We don't really understand the depth of our blessings without experiencing the pain in our struggles. But God is faithful and good and kind. And He will not leave us to walk through any of it alone. And just when we feel like we cannot go on - in the midst of the rain - the sun will peek through - and we will get a glimpse of the colors in the rainbow...and we remember His promise.
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