There is Hope After the Storm

Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.

God spoke to Noah to build a boat.  God was grieved that he made man because man was wicked and the earth was filled with violence.  When the flood came it wiped everything out and every living thing.  All that had been was gone, and all that was left was Noah and his family.  There was a lot destruction, a lot of memories, a lot of regrets of losing everyone that they had ever none.  You know that it had to be a horrific incident.  After the flood came God's promise, his covenant, the rainbow.    Noah and his family could have focused on all that was LOST, or they could look at the rainbow and live.  They could think about how barren the earth was now that everyone was gone, or they could be thankful for the covenant that God made.  They could think about how everyone died, or they could be grateful that now they could live in an earth that was no longer filled with evil and violence.


What have you been through in life?  What tragedies have you seen?  What loses have you endured?  What disappointments have you faced?  What emptiness have you had to endure? 

Just like Noah you have the choice to think about  your losses, revel in your misery or to think about the promises of God and begin to live again!   That rainbow was God's promise that they would never go through that storm again.   You have a rainbow given to you by God, it is his promise that though you have went through a terrible storm that took everything, God will bless you, and make you fruitful once again.  His love for you out weighs any problems or storms that you face in life. 

Genesis 9:

12And 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.