D.L.

FIRST WEDNESDAY 21st OF LENT

“And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.”
(Genesis 9,12-15 NIV11-GKE)

“This is not about water. It is about God. It is about the God who emotes in anger but who circles back with a second effort to flood us with fidelity. ¹”

Every time I watch a rainbow, I am reminded of my childhood. Sometimes, a multicoloured arch appears in the skies when the rain is falling, and some appear. I chose to believe that it is a mystery, even though there is a scientific explanation for it.
It fires my imagination, and it is like a multicoloured suspended bridge that reminds me of wonders, signs and hope. For those of us who have trusted in God’s Son, it is deeper than wonder and sign; it is the belief in our hope in our covenantal God.

Read and pray and ask the Holy Spirit to use the Word of the Lord to speak to you.

DL

1. Walter Brueggemann, A Way Other Than Our Own, Accordance electronic ed. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017), 16. ↩︎