Rainbows

Our glorious Father cannot be categorized, described or explained.  Psalm 19:1 says "The heavens declare the glory of God."  I cannot begin to understand "the heavens."  Outer space is beyond my mental reach.  How can there be an ever expanding universe and that be only one of millions?  How can I then understand God?  He is too big for me to know.

Yet He has put a picture of Himself in the Bible. In it He shows His love and sacrificial nature. He shows His power and might. Then there are things in His self portrait that I would not expect to find there. Things that speak volumes about Him because with all the sorrow and joy in life, all the hard work of redeeming mankind Our Great Father put seemingly insignificant things about Himself in the Bible. Here is one...He looks at rainbows.

"And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it." (Genesis 9:16)  

Rainbows are fleeting, fanciful things. You cannot touch them. They yield no rain. Flowers do not grow in their sight.  Nothing changes because there is a rainbow; they serve no purpose.  But God looks at them. With all He does to sustain us, He looks at rainbows.  

The funny thing is that I look at them too.  When the storm ends I run to find the rainbow. When I see it, I know He and I are looking at the same thing.  Those are special moments. God and I connected; staring at the same whimsical picture in the sky. I cannot understand  most things about my Father, but I know He loves the beauty of the rainbow and we have that in common.