God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
Genesis 9:12-16 NASB
When God gave the promise of the rainbow to Noah, have you ever stopped to think about what was actually happening in that moment. They are not called RAIN-bows for nothing. It was probably raining, and Noah and his family had just endured a prolonged, horrific trauma because of rain. They probably had some form of ancient PTSD. Nevertheless, what had brought terror now brought hope. Noah knew he could trust God, and he had learned quite well that God’s word never fails. Remember that the next time a rainbow greets you in the sky.
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