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With all the rain we’ve been having in these parts lately, some folks have been sharing more than the usual number of photos of gorgeous rainbows, and other folks have been starting to wonder if they should head over to the closest lumberyard to stock up on supplies for building an Ark.
In case you’re drawing a blank on the story, I’ll remind you that after The Great Flood by which God washed the world so that he could start fresh with just one human family and the offspring of just one pair of all the other creatures (or at least those who made it on time to board the Ark), once the waters had receded and dry land was available again, God put a bow in the sky and made a promise not to ever again send such a prodigious amount of rain. Hence the name, “rainbow.”
For we Christian folk, rainbows are about God, specifically, God’s promise that our home planet will always be a safe place to live. Another way to look at this is to say that rainbows are about our faith in God. We take God at his word, and we trust he’ll deliver. This is what faith means: to have trust.
This coming Sunday, in the faith that we’ll not all be under water, we’ll gather to worship and to hear the final message in our collection of sermons about the pillars of life. We’ll focus on faith. Read and pray over Hebrews 10:32-11:3. I’ll finish up some writing before then, and we’ll hear together, “Pillars of Life: Faith.”
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