The Rainbow.

From: Messages of God's Love: 1900

Going up Loch Lomond in Scotland, one morning, in a small steamer that plied there, we saw a pretty sight. The sun was shining brightly, but the wind was blowing in very strong, fitful gusts that laid our vessel over on its side, till one paddle was buried in the water, while the other was out of it. It was dangerous, and the engines had to stop till the vessel was righted again. The water was dashed against the boat and whirled high in the air, like ringlets; and the sun shining on them made every ring a small rainbow.

It was not the beauty of the scene that riveted me, nor the danger we were in. It was the Scripture I had been reading, Gen. 9:12-17¹²And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: ¹³I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: ¹⁵And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. ¹⁷And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. (Genesis 9:12‑17), “I do set my bow in the cloud,” v. 13, “And the bow shall be in the cloud,” v. 14. The rainbow is the pledge that God gives of His everlasting covenant with the earth; but I thought that morning of the pledge to me, as being in Christ, of His sure and everlasting protection and blessing. A. F.

ML 03/18/1900

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