Genesis 9:13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
Have you ever taken out an old photo album, or looked at a picture on your phone of your kids or someone else that was taken several years ago? At our house, we had a screen saver on our computer that would bring up pictures that we had saved on the computer, and sometimes we would sit in the bed and just watch the 3 second clips of each picture. Now I'm not extremely sentimental, but I must admit that I would get teary eyed as a picture of my daughter or my son would come up from when they were a baby. I read today's scripture. and I get the idea that God is sentimental. I mean, we are made in His image, and we are sentimental, so it isn't too farfetched. After the flood, God made a covenant with the earth to never bring a flood to destroy everything again. And to signify this covenant, He put a rainbow in the sky, a beautiful display of color for everyone to see. I must admit that for a long time, I missed something about this passage.............you see, I knew that the rainbow was for me to see. Whenever it rains, and there is a rainbow, it brings to my mind the memory of God's promise, but if read all of this passage you will discover that the rainbow is also for God! In verse 16, God says that He "will look upon it" and "remember the everlasting covenant". So now when the rainbow shows up in the clouds, God is looking down and He is remembering the time that he showed grace to Noah and his family, and when He made this promise to all of us, and how much He loves His people. He is a sentimental Father.
I also believe that God is a sentimental Father. There is no doubt that I am emotional towards my children. This particular emotion is a bitter sweet one. I mean when we look at old pictures of our children it reminds us that they will never be that little again and that stage of our lifes is over. To think that God feels the same way about me is very sweet. Maybe the infant stage of my Christianity is special to God as well as the next stages in our walk with Christ. I know for me, my children are still small and I am trying my best to hold them as long as I can! One day this stage will pass and all I will have is pictures and memories. Priorities,Priorities!
ReplyDeleteGod's beautiful promise...its amazing when a rainbow appears people will pullover and stop everything they are doing and look at the rainbow God has shown , even the science of man has tried
ReplyDeleteto explain to only fail,Only God can make it appear in the sky... and to Know that I am looking at the rainbow the same time God is ,well that's more than enough foe me