My Rainbow
My Sunday School Teacher asked me yesterday if I still thought of God's promises when looking at a rainbow. I do. The declaration to Noah never to destroy the world by water is a testimony to the faithfulness of the Creator.
I do remember God's promises when the rainbow appears, but not when i'’s raining. My thoughts are preoccupied when the water that falls, the wind that blows, and lighting that flashes.
It is easy to remember God's promise of life on Easter. We celebrate an empty grave and look forward to the promise of heaven. Yet when Easter Day is over the storms come. The problems of life return to prominence. Weariness and worry penetrate our worship.
Jesus promised that he would never leave us or forsake us (Gen 28:15; Deut 31:8; Josh 1:9; Ps 94:14; 1 King 8:57; Is 41:10-13; 1 Chron 28:20; Heb 13:5-6; Matt 28:20). The empty grave is our "rainbow" promise. The Apostle John wrote that a rainbow hovers about the throne of God. "After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things." Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads" (Revelation 4:1-4).
This week pause during your storm. Remember the rainbow and the promise of heaven. Choose to focus on eternity during the present. Do not let the memory of Easter leave you.
Matt Emerson.
I do remember God's promises when the rainbow appears, but not when i'’s raining. My thoughts are preoccupied when the water that falls, the wind that blows, and lighting that flashes.
It is easy to remember God's promise of life on Easter. We celebrate an empty grave and look forward to the promise of heaven. Yet when Easter Day is over the storms come. The problems of life return to prominence. Weariness and worry penetrate our worship.
Jesus promised that he would never leave us or forsake us (Gen 28:15; Deut 31:8; Josh 1:9; Ps 94:14; 1 King 8:57; Is 41:10-13; 1 Chron 28:20; Heb 13:5-6; Matt 28:20). The empty grave is our "rainbow" promise. The Apostle John wrote that a rainbow hovers about the throne of God. "After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things." Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads" (Revelation 4:1-4).
This week pause during your storm. Remember the rainbow and the promise of heaven. Choose to focus on eternity during the present. Do not let the memory of Easter leave you.
Matt Emerson.