"I Will Remember My Covenant"

 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 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 9:11-16

Our daughter had returned home from Oregon this week and so yesterday my husband and I happened to be in her city for another reason and after that, we had stopped at her house to pick her up to go to our home for a visit. Later that late afternoon, a storm had rolled in and was still going on while we took her home. After dropping her off and heading towards home, we saw this huge and beautiful rainbow off to the side of the highway. It made me remember the story in the Bible about how God had destroyed the earth by flood because the people had become increasingly evil and were doing really bad things. He had Noah build an ark because God had been pleased with this man who He had found to be faithful to Him. As a result, Noah, his family, and many animals were saved on the ark as He destroyed the earth by flood,  to restart the world when the rains were finally stopped.  

As I watched that rainbow for miles, it had been amazing to think of a God who had loved us so much that he would promise never to destroy the world again with flood and at this very time, God too was seeing it from his place in the heavens and remembering that everlasting covenant that he had made to Noah so many thousands of years ago.

It also reminded me of the promises he has made me, not only over the years of my life but specifically, of the ones that brought us to a new state to live in not so long ago. Not knowing how the impossible was going to turn into the possible, and where we would land when we got here. But it all had, and It has all been because of God and the promises He had made us! 

He has never forgotten the promise he had made to Noah and we too can remember it and those he has made to us, as we gaze upon the beautiful handiwork of a loving God, who always keeps his promises.

Thanks for coming by, Friends. My God bless you today!