Rainbows

You walk outside after a big rain storm, you breathe in a deep breath and smell the new clean air and as you look up you see the most beautiful site in the world! It is as if God took every color, placed them on his fingertips and simply waved it across the sky. There is no beginning and no end. Oh man alive do I love rainbows! Aren't they gorgeous?!?!

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I like the rainbows you see when looking at a prism or the splash in the midst of a mud puddle but the ones in the sky are my favorite. Not only are they gorgeous but they are also a reminder of God's promise. Not that I have to have a visible reminder of any of God's promises but personally, I think, if you are going to make a visible reminder of a promise, the rainbow was the way to go!

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But, you know, no matter how many tears I have cried I have never noticed a rainbow in those tears. I've been thinking about this alot lately and I have come to realize that the reason I don't see rainbows in my tears is because God has never promised me that I would never cry them. In Genesis 9:15 he says "Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life." I don't see anywhere in that promise that it says I will not suffer hard times, heart break, frustration, devastation, loneliness, sorrow, despair...none of that. I says that never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. See, even though tears fall they don't destroy us.

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God's promise regarding our tears comes in Revelation 21:4 "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."

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Now, when you see a rainbow painted on the beautiful canvas that is the sky you just remember God's promise and that even after all these years he still remembers that promise and stands by it. He hasn't forgotten or forsaken us. So, if he is going to put that rainbow in the sky time and time again then the day will come when he most certainly wipe away our tears and carry us to a place of no more death, no more mourning, crying or pain! So, when you are trying to choke back tears just let go and cry them anyway. God gave them to you for a reason! There is no limit on how many you can shed in a lifetime!