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The Promise of the Rainbow

12/4/2012

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These little snowmen were a gift from my children’s leaders at our local church AWANA club. I happen to know they are an “under a dollar” gift – but we have reaped a million times that worth of fun from them. My boys love to turn out the lamps in the room, turn on the little snowmen, and watch the lights inside them rotate through all the colors of the rainbow. They laugh, and ooh and aah…but mostly they just are fascinated by the myriad colors of light. Christmas decorations with their multi-colored lights should remind us that this is the season of the coming of the Light of the World!

Can you imagine how the first rainbow must have looked to Noah and his family, as they stood looking up at that symbol of the first covenant between God and man? God’s promises are eternal, and eternally the rainbow preaches the truth to all of us that redemption is available by a provision of our loving Father. Grieved by our sin, God Himself stepped in to pay the price.  

Long ago, He saved Noah and Noah’s family with him…and set the rainbow in the sky for a token.  The stripes of glittering red giving way into orange, yellow, green, blue…just imagine what it would have been to see that for the very first time! The entire family of Noah found salvation in the ark the Lord had Noah construct. That ark was their means of saving grace, just as Jesus saves us from the judgment of sin. There was one way to salvation for them – through the door of that ark. After the ark was completed, man was invited to enter. And today, there is still one way to salvation, through Jesus Christ who says, “Come unto Me.”  

Noah and his family saw the multi-colored lights of the rainbow and rejoiced at the provision of God it represents. Part of that provision, part of the promise-keeping of God, is to give us a way home to Him. And the provision of that promise is the Light of the World, Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life – no one comes to the Father, except through Him. It should make our hearts sing with rejoicing to see the scarlet thread of redemption throughout Scripture! From the very beginning, God has called us to Him.

Genesis 9:16-17 "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.” And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Hallelujah, we celebrate the coming of the King! The babe of Bethlehem, the Savior, the Light of the World came because of the Father’s great love for us – for you and me.

Go see some Christmas lights sometime soon, and stand with someone you love and just marvel at the beauty. And marvel at what the love of God has done.

Oh Lord God, thank you for the promise of salvation we see all through Scripture, beginning in Genesis. Thank you for the beauty of the rainbow, for the beauty of your love, for the beauty of the incarnation of Christ. May our lives be holier, gentler, more beautiful witnesses for you this Advent season, because we have been saved by Your grace, touched by your mercy, wrapped in Your love. For the Sake of the Gospel, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen. 


Blessings to you this season of Joy!
Cara and Patti
Classic Christianity


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