How often have you seen a rainbow ?
Atmospheric conditions following normally a heavy rain occasionally favour the formation of a rainbow.
Seeing a rainbow nowaday is becoming a rare experience in our hectic schedule. Rainbow is always so unexpected and many of us miss it as we do not often venture out after the rain.
I remember reading an article from a non-friction story about people making rainbows on walls and ceiling and some would make rainbow out from some beveled glass. They will give away the beveled glass with rainbow as a gift hoping to teach unpleasant people to find pleasure in them.
Perhaps We can learn our lesson from Noah's Ark and I particularly like the pointer no 11,mention about Rainbow.
1.Don't miss the boat.
2.Remember that we are all in the same boat.
3.Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
4.Stay fit When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
5.Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
6.Build your future on high ground!
7.For safety's sake, travel in pairs.
8.Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
9.When you're stressed, float a while.
10.Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
11.No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting.
6 months ago
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Yes, we enjoy God's creation on earth, and we must thank Him. The rainbow is a sign of God's everlasting covenant - will not be a flood to destroy the earth again.
Scripture reference - Genesis 6:1 - 9:17, Noah's Ark and the Flood - Story Summary:
God saw how great wickedness had become and decided to wipe mankind from the face of the earth. However, one righteous man among all the people of that time, Noah, found favor in God's eyes. With very specific instructions, God told Noah to build an ark for him and his family in preparation for a catastrophic flood that would destroy every living thing on earth. God also instructed Noah to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, along with every kind of food to be stored as food for the animals and his family while on the ark. Noah obeyed everything God commanded him to do.After they entered the ark, rain fell on the earth for a period of forty days and nights. The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days, and every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out. As the waters receded, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Noah and his family continued to wait for almost eight more months while the surface of the earth dried out.Finally after an entire year, God invited Noah to come out of the ark. Immediately, he built an altar and worshiped the Lord with burnt offerings from some of the clean animals. God was pleased with the offerings and promised never again to destroy all the living creatures as he had just done. Later God established a covenant with Noah: "Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." As a sign of this everlasting covenant God set a rainbow in the clouds.
Points of Interest from the Story:
• God's purpose in the flood was not to destroy people, but to destroy wickedness and sin.
• With more detail, God instructed Noah to take seven of every kind of clean animal, and two of every kind of unclean animal. Bible scholars have calculated that approximately 45,000 animals might have fit on the ark.
• Genesis 7:16 interestingly points out that God shut them in the ark, or "closed the door," so to speak.
• The ark was exactly six times longer than it was wide. According to the Life Application Bible study notes, this is the same ratio used by modern ship builders.
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