The Amen

by Toms, A. F. | Category: Christ In Genesis | Oct 1988

I was visiting Niagara recently with a friend, and was impressed all over again by the sound of many waters as they hurled themselves over the Horseshoe Falls. And spanning the waters in the sky was the most beautiful rainbow, shining brightly in all its colours. I am told the rainbow can be seen any day between 2 and 4 p.m. when the sun is shining. I went back to my Bible to read about the first time God put His bow in the cloud. It was after the Flood, you remember, when Noah came out of the ark, that God made a covenant with all mankind that while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease. And then He said "I do set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be a token of the covenant between Me and the earth". It was something men could look at, and remember that God always keeps His promises.

But more than that - and I had not noticed this before - it was something for God to look at, too. "The bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it" He said, "that I may remember the everlasting covenant". So that bow in the cloud which many thousands of tourists to Niagara gaze upon every year is seen also by God in heaven - a reminder to Him and to us that His word can never fail. He always keeps His promises.

When John the aged apostle got a glimpse into heaven he saw the throne of God, and he said there was a rainbow round about the throne like an emerald to look upon. Ezekiel saw it, too, hundreds of years before. And describing the brightness around God's throne he said, "as the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about". God's throne is a' rainbow-circled throne, a constant reminder that His word can never fail.

It tells us about Christ too, for in the first chapter of Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, he says, "the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you ... was not yea and nay, but in Him is yea. For how many soever be the promises of God, in Him is the yea: wherefore also through Him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us". Precious, is it not? all God's promises are made real to us in Christ, they reach us through Him. And through Christ we say Yes to them by faith.

So every time you see the rainbow in the sky, yes, and even when you do not, remember that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all pledged to make sure to us the promises with which Scripture abounds. Oh how favoured we are!

Toms, A. F. | Oct 1988
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