FOOD FOR THOUGHT

When Noah saw the earth desolated by the deluge, he must have been traumatized. Whenever afterwards the skies grew dark overhead, he would need assurance. God said ‘I do set my bow in the cloud and it shall be a token of a covenant’. The rainbow is the flag of God, the seven-colored royal standard. No icon, no regimental colors, no empire symbol could match that! The word ‘bow’ in Genesis 9:13 is the same Hebrew word as a bow for arrows – a war bow. What a war- bow, spanning the whole horizon! What mighty arrows it must shoot when God goes into battle. ‘The Lord will march out like a mighty man, like a warrior he will stir up his zeal; with a shout he will raise the battle cry and will triumph over his enemies’. Isaiah 42:12. The rainbow is not a mere phenomenon of beauty but a Divine reminder of God’s archery. ‘There was a rainbow round about the throne and out of the throne proceeded lightnings’, God’s mighty arrows. (Rev. 4:3,5). No wind can blow a rainbow away. No devil can switch it off. The battle belongs to the Lord. We all suffer life’s storms when ominous blackness fills our skies, but that arching splendor of prismatic color in the rain cloud, seen with our mortal eyes, is the objective standard of God to reassure us. God’s rainbow is His love bent to the world - and you and me. Blessed? REINHARD BONNKE