rowing up, I heard about this
colorful circle (usually seen as an arc) that
appears in the sky when an “intended” heavy
downpour somehow ends in a drizzle. They
called it a rainbow. I was about seven years
old when I saw my first rainbow. I talked
about it with the other kids I was with, each
of us sharing the different stories we’ve heard
about the rainbow.
It wasn’t until the
year 2010 that I knew
the real story behind
the rainbow.
I had just given my life to Jesus at the beginning of that year and the insatiable hunger
to know Him more and more filled my being.
Every minute of the day, I wanted to know
Him and please Him more so, my bible became my most important possession. I read
and studied it - a lot. Thankfully, I got to read
the story of Noah. From the pre-ark time to
the time they were in the ark to the post-ark
time after the flood. Reading on, I dug out a
great treasure. It laid in the 9th chapter of the
book of Genesis, from the eighth verse to the
seventeenth:
Genesis 9:8-17
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons who
were with him. He said, 9“I am now making my
covenant with you and with all of your children
who will be born after you. 10I am making it
also with every living thing that was with you
in the ark. I am making my covenant with the
birds, the livestock and all of the wild animals.
I am making it with all of the creatures that
came out of the ark with you. I am making it
with every living thing on earth. 11“Here is my
covenant that I am making with you. The waters of a flood will never destroy all life again.
A flood will never destroy the earth again.”
12God continued, “My covenant is between me
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and you and every living thing with you. It is a
covenant for all time to come. “Here is the sign
of the covenant I am making. 13I have put my
rainbow in the clouds. It will be the sign of the
covenant between me and the earth. 14Sometimes when I bring clouds over the earth, a
rainbow will appear in them. 15Then I will
remember my covenant between me and you
and every kind of living thing. The waters will
never become a flood to destroy all life again.
16“When the rainbow appears in the clouds,
I will see it. I will remember that my covenant
will last forever. It is a covenant between me
and every kind of living thing on earth.”
17So God said to Noah, “The rainbow is the
sign of my covenant. I have made my covenant between me and all life on earth.”
And this got me thinking. When I was seven
(and probably at some other points before), the Lord has had a reason to grieve
and regret ever creating man so much that
He wanted to drown us all once again with
water. I thought of the many times the rainbow had appeared in the sky and each time,
reminding God (like Moses did when He
wanted to destroy all the Israelites in the
wilderness) of His Word, His covenant and
His faithfulness causing God to withdraw His
wrath.
I thought, if there was no such covenant, how
many times over would God have destroyed
the earth with flood. I wondered if I would
have been among those that would be in the
ark or not. Would anybody have found favor
in God enough that God would instruct him/
her to build an ark? Was there someone who
could have trusted God enough and obeyed
Him by building an ark when instructed?
We see God keeping the covenant He
made everytime we
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