Promises

South Dakota storms just aren't the same as good ol' Kansas storms. They're just so tame up here. But they still make big fluffy white clouds. I've seen a lot of these clouds over the past weeks (but not up close, much to my disappointment).

Today's drive home was filled with fluffy white clouds again. I followed one particular cluster into town. This one had a rainbow.


Rainbows are cool. Scientifically, they can be explained by light refracting off water molecules in the air and something about color spectrums, which is boring and unexciting. That's not what I think of when I see rainbows in the sky.

And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." -Genesis 9:12-16

As I was watching this rainbow, God was looking at it and remembering this conversation He had with Noah...the Noah...thousands of years ago.

That's why rainbows are so cool.

They're a physical and visible sign of God's promise in action.