The Beauty of it All

I know, I know, I was going to take a hiatus, but I couldn’t resist this one. This last weekend I was up in Hillsboro, Oregon. I went to a Poison concert amongst other things at the Oregon State Fair. Sunday came, and it was time for me to leave. It was around 6:30 PM. The day was dreary, wet, and soggy. As I was driving through Gresham, I noticed a rainbow, a double rainbow at that. Yes rainbows are beautiful, and very complex physically at that. A network of billions upon billions of raindrops together, each crafted so magnificently by our creator, to have a different critical angle, that upon total internal reflection, a different wavelength of light escapes the raindrop, creating what we see. That is it in a very very small nutshell. But as i was driving, and looking at the majesty of such a display of God’s handiwork, I began to think beyond the normal, into the supernatural almost.

As I write this I recall the story of King Belshazzar in the Old Testament, the book of Daniel to be exact. This story recounts the infamous writing on the wall. It is found in Daniel chapter 5, here is a brief excerpt:

“In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.”

Now whilst the handwriting on the wall was of impending doom, I still relate it to what I saw with the rainbow that day. I think of this story, and the rainbow, and can’t help to think, that the rainbow is the writing of God on the sky, placed there for us to see. Unlike the story in Daniel, the rainbow is a writing of hope, of promise. As I started thinking about this in the car, my ears started tearing up, and I was just overwhelmed with the Spirit. To think that after thousands of years, the words of God are written on the sky for all to see! Yes, yes, I know we have the Bible, the Word of God, but so many times I think we box ourselves in, and limit the Bible to the only means of communication God has with his children. While that is one avenue, it isn’t the only. If we take the time to look around, I’m positive we will find the words of God written in many many more places. Take the rainbow for example, after thousands of years, it still says:

““And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants^[b] after you,  and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.  Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:  I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.  It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;  and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.  The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”  And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

There they are, the words of God, in visible form. God wants us to hear Him. Take the time to look, to listen, and learn.