The Rainbow

Photo by Tami Wilson

 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth...  The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.  Genesis 9:13, 16

Have you ever felt like you could not take one more step, that enough is enough, that no matter what you did that nothing was ever going to be the same?  I have and if you are totally honest with yourself you will find that you have to.  I was in that place several years ago and honestly did not know what to do.  But God did!  I was driving up I-5, in snow and rain, listening to praise music, praying and crying, wondering how I was going to put my life back together.  I looked out my passenger window and saw a beautiful rainbow.  I drove a little further and low and behold there was another rainbow and I thought how beautiful, a double rainbow.  As I turned my attention back to my driving I saw that God had actually placed the end of the rainbow right in front of me and I was going to drive through it.  As I drove through the rainbow my car was filled with all these brilliant colors and I felt God speaking to me.  He said, "I have this and I will take care of it, everything will be okay just put your faith and trust in me."  I had such a peace come over me and I knew in my heart that everything was going to be okay.  Has my life been all hunky dory since then?  Absolutely not but I know with God at the wheel of my life everything will be okay.

GOD PUT A RAINBOW IN THE CLOUD
 By Reverend Andrew Jenkins and Irene Spain
 
 When God shut Noah in the grand old ark
 He put a rainbow in the cloud
 When thunders rolled and the sky was dark
 God put a rainbow in the cloud.
 
      God put a rainbow in the cloud
      God put a rainbow in the cloud
      When it looked like the sun wouldn't shine anymore
      God put a rainbow in the cloud.
 
 Away down yonder in Egypt's sand
 God put a rainbow in the cloud
 Just to lead His children to the promised land
 God put a rainbow in the cloud.
 
 When they put old Daniel in the lion's den,
 God put a rainbow in the cloud
 Just to prove His promise to the sons of men
 God put a rainbow in the cloud.
 
 As a sign by day and a sign by night
 God put a rainbow in the cloud
 Just to guide His people and keep them right
 God put a rainbow in the cloud.
 
 Oh, Jordan deep and Jordan wide
 God put a rainbow in the cloud
 To lead his people to the other side
 God put a rainbow in the cloud.