I WILL REMEMBER

“The rainbow will be in the cloud; so that when I look at it, I will remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of any kind on the earth.”
Genesis 9:16

This past August I was driving a moving truck with my family’s things in it from California to Texas. The journey started out great and I was making good timing. I barreled through my small portion on California, up the I-15 to the I-40, made it through all of Arizona, and then found myself in New Mexico. It was when I was in New Mexico, though, that things began to change. Having been driving through a good portion of the night I found myself sleepy. No problem, I would just take a little nap. But as I awoke and started driving again, I found myself soon coming into a storm. For the latter part of my drive through New Mexico I found hit and miss downpour and strong winds. As I continued to press on I looked up in the sky and saw for the first time ever, a double rainbow. My mind suddenly went back to Adonai’s promise to never flood the earth again, but also to a feeling of peace that He would keep me safe. Little did I know that more rain and stronger winds would meet me in my final miles of New Mexico.
I wonder in some ways if that is what Noach felt as well. Now I didn’t have the feeling of concern Noach would have had of another flood while on my journey, but I am referring mostly to peace. When Adonai sent the rainbow, it was His covenant that He would never flood the earth again. As I have learned, Adonai takes covenants made by Him and with Him very seriously. So seriously that in Genesis 9:16 when the rainbow is given, Adonai agrees that He too will remember His covenant when the rainbow is seen. The peace that must have followed as Noach heard these words may have been the same peace that I felt as I saw the double rainbow that evening in the sky.
Eventually I did make it into Texas, and within only a few miles of crossing the border, the storms subsided. The peace that I had felt as I looked up into the sky back in New Mexico seemed to travel in front of me in Texas. Although the journey took a few hours longer than I had expected, the peace I felt was beyond anything I had ever felt. And it is the same peace offered to you. Isn’t it great to know that Adonai does in fact remember?

Genesis 9:8-17