Rainbows In the Storms of Life

Yesterday was a good day.  After a birthday lunch with my parents I began the drive home.  There were dark clouds rolling in so we hurried a little.  Upon approaching a red light, my son screamed from the back seat, "look mom a rainbow!", and sure enough there it was.  I beautiful, brightly colored rainbow shining in the sky amidst the dark clouds.  My son asks, "does that mean it's going to stop raining?"  I answered him.  "No son.  It will probably keep raining, but what a beauty God gave us to see in the meantime." 

That got me thinking about life.  We all experience rain in our lives.  Sometimes we even experience storms, but God is always there, shining His beauty through it and through us.  Just like that rainbow.  When we go through the storms in our life we have a choice to make.  Do we duck and cover and try our best to avoid the rain, or do we stand tall and let Him walk before us, guiding our path and revealing His beauty in the midst of our storm. 

I was in a storm recently.  I felt let down, disappointed, and scared.  I had a choice to make.  Sure there is sadness and tears, but there is also divine healing.  I stood up, took a deep breath, and prayed for God to walk before me and guide me.  And let me tell you, He did!  Yes, I am still recovering.  Yes, I still expreience moments of sadness.  But I am looking toward the promise of tomorrow and what the future holds.  With the Lord at the steering wheel, there is nothing I can't handle.  He will hold me when I can't stand.  He will fill me when I feel empty.  He will cover me from the darts and arrows the enemy throws at me.  I may bend but I won't break.  I will speak His Holy name! I will keep going until Jesus calls me home! Again I say, I am a child of God with a divine inheritance! 

God is good all the time, and all the time God is good!

 

1 John 4:1-16

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.  By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,  and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.  We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.  He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.  In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.  In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.  By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.  And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.  And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.