I live in the south where tropical storms often send us week long downpours as a storms hits land. After days and days of thunderstorms, drizzles and grey, colorless skies, its wonderful to see the sun again. Yesterday, as I was driving home from work, I looked up and saw a stunning rainbow. As I pulled up to a stoplight, I snapped a photo of this beautiful sight. Later, while I was driving, I was thinking about what God was saying when He painted the first rainbow. It is an extravagant display of God’s love and protection of us. While I was thinking about these things, I saw a man and his son driving and the son was trying desperately to capture a picture of the rainbow with his phone. It was then that I thought of how many times God shows us his love and we overlook it. God painted the first rainbow after He flooded the earth. It was His promise to us that He would never cover the earth with a flood. Now, every time there is a huge rain, he sends another arc of colors. It is a reminder that no matter how bad things get, they will never be that bad. There will still be something beautiful after bad weather.
When I was in college, I went to visit a friend in upstate New York. She took me to this “glen” for a walk. It was more like a ravine etched out of the rock that was overgrown and bedecked with greenery. It was and is the most beautiful sight I have ever seen. After wandering around, engrossed in the sights around me, it hit me. God made all of this just because He knows I love it. It wasn’t even His masterpiece. His masterpiece He made with His bare hands, the rest He simply spoke and it existed. It seems that the more I see of this world and all that God has made, the more I am unknowingly in awe of the Creator of the World. It is then that I remember that things like rainbows and glens are nothing compared with Heaven. So what about the boy and his father taking the picture of the rainbow? It reminded me that we are awed by God, even when we don’t realize it.
