As good as you are, or as flawed as you are, you are 100% dependent on God&#8217;s faithfulness. Without his faithfulness, you don&#8217;t wake up today. Without his faithfulness, the sun doesn&#8217;t come up. Without his faithfulness, things are never made right. You are surrounded by constant proof of God&#8217;s faithfulness and your every breath depends on it. HE WILL NEVER FAIL YOU.
God has made promises over you. He is in covenant with you, and God does not break his covenants. You may fail, but he does not. You may doubt, but God is always 100% certain. He&#8217;s certain he loves you, he&#8217;s certain he chooses you, he&#8217;s certain he wants to bless you.
Imagine that for a moment &#8211; the creator of the entire universe WANTS TO BLESS YOU. He wants to make something happen just for you. With one word from him, it can happen. Doors can open, circumstances can change, the impossible can suddenly be made possible. He never stops wanting to bless you.
After Noah comes out of the ark with his family and the animals, they start life over again in a world that has been renewed by the flood. And God creates a sign in the sky of his promise over all life on Earth. What was the sign of God&#8217;s promise? What was the signature of his covenant?
IT&#8217;S THE RAINBOW.
Genesis 9: 11-16:
God says to Noah, &#8220;Yes, I am confirming my covenant with you. Never again will flood waters kill all living creatures; never again will a flood destroy the earth.&#8221;
Then God said, &#8220;I am giving you a sign of my covenant with you and with all living creatures, for all generations to come. (That means me and you because we are part of the generations to come from Noah! We are the recipients of this covenant with God). I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth. When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds, and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again with the floodwaters destroy all life. When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth.&#8221;
Did you know, a rainbow is actually not the arch shape we see? It&#8217;s actually a full circle &#8211; we only see half of the circle. Okay, why hasn&#8217;t someone ever told me that before? I was flying over a tropical island one time and looked out of my airplane window to see the full circle of a rainbow over the entire island and I flipped out a little thinking Jesus was surely coming back in that moment. It&#8217;s a full circle. Complete. Whole.
God&#8217;s promise is full circle. It isn&#8217;t just a half promise, it&#8217;s a complete promise. Remember that when you see a rainbow.
Why are we anything less that absolutely impressed by the miracle of a rainbow? Why do we look at those perfect colors circling our sky and dismiss it as the result of something ordinary happening. GOD MADE THAT HAPPEN. It didn&#8217;t have to happen just because that&#8217;s what light does through the rain, no it happens because God designed it to happen. He sends us signs of his promises.
But, notice God says here, &#8220;I will remember my covenant with you and all living creatures.&#8221; Then he says &#8220;When I, God, see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember.&#8221; God remembers you and he remembers his promises. He is 100% faithful. He will follow through.
Sometimes we&#8217;re blessed with this magnificent reminder in the sky. And if it&#8217;s anything less than magnificent for you, you&#8217;ve allowed life to numb you. Be the one who stops everything to stand in awe of God. Be the one who makes a BIG DEAL out of the wonders of God. Girl, be IMPRESSED BY GOD! Be blown away by his power and majesty. Be amazed by his works. That rainbow in the sky didn&#8217;t just happen because of some scientific truth, it happened because God ordained it to happen and he created it. Now you get to behold it for a moment.
But ultimately, God created the rainbow as HIS REMINDER. He says I WILL REMEMBER MY COVENANT WITH YOU. God says, &#8220;When I SEE the rainbow, I will remember.&#8221; God remembers you. He remembers his promises. And not just when it rains and the sun hits it just right &#8211; he remembers you and his promises over you eternally, non-stop, all the time. Sitting on his throne in Heaven, he is reminded, and here&#8217;s how &#8211; his throne is circled by a rainbow. Literally.
The apostle John was gifted with a little visit to Heaven to see things we cannot see. This is John, one of Jesus&#8217; 12 disciples. He was a fisherman who Jesus invited to leave his nets and come follow him, so he did, and his whole world changed. He was there by the cross when Jesus was crucified. He was referred to as &#8220;the one Jesus loved&#8221;. John is the author of the book of Revelation, and he wrote that book because God revealed to him the things of Heaven and what is to come. And there in Heaven, John sees God&#8217;s throne.
Y&#8217;all, I want to assure you, there will come a time in your existence when you see that throne. As sure as the moment came for you to be born, the moment came for you to take your first step, the moment came for you to turn 16, the moment will come for you to stand before that throne. It will happen. That moment is waiting for you. And here&#8217;s what you will see &#8211;
Revelation 4: 2-3, &#8220;There before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it&#8230; A rainbow encircled the throne.&#8221;
Remember, a rainbow is a perfect circle, a complete and whole eternal reminder of God&#8217;s promise to us, and God chose to sit right in the middle of that promise on his throne. There&#8217;s never a moment of a single day that he&#8217;s not reminded of you and his promise to you. He put a rainbow around his throne!
But, let me tell you, his covenant is more than just a promise to never wipe out this earth with a flood. It&#8217;s a promise of BLESSINGS. We read of this promise in Isaiah 54: 9-10. The Lord says, &#8220;Just as I swore in the time of Noah that I would never again let a flood cover the earth, so now I swear that I will never again be angry and punish you. For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken.&#8221;
That&#8217;s a rainbow, my friends. God&#8217;s covenant of blessings. A perfect circle that will not be broken. The rainbow around his throne.
He will have mercy on you even when you don&#8217;t deserve it. He will never give you what you deserve, he will give you Jesus, and he will save you. There is an eternal paradise in his presence waiting for you on the other side of this life. His rainbow reminds us of his promises. And he literally SITS IN THOSE PROMISES. Continually encircled by a rainbow as a reminder of his promises of faithfulness concerning you.
God signed a covenant over you. It&#8217;s a binding promise that offers forgiveness for your sins and eternal life. The blood of Jesus seals that covenant and makes it forever. You are forgiven. You are covered. His blessings will never be broken. God&#8217;s faithful love for you will remain forever.
May you never, ever see a rainbow again and be unimpressed. May you forever remember the covenant over your life that changes absolutely everything for you. What a gift it is to get to occasionally see the reminder that encircles God&#8217;s throne night and day. He wants that reminder. He sits in that promise and he will not be moved from it. A promise of BLESSING is over you.
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