Last night, a severe storm went through our area. The winds blew and were very loud. We lost power for about an hour and a half and there was some hail, but we were all safe and sound in our house, protected from the storm.
Last night, we saw pictures on Facebook of about 6 or 7 telephone poles in a row laid flat after the storm. But it wasn't really until I went to work that I saw the destructiveness of the storm. Large limbs lying all over the place and leaves everywhere, even plastered to the windows of the building I work in, testified to the fierceness of the storm. I saw a trampoline in someone's front yard from who knows where. (It was not theirs.)
I heard a story of one of my co-workers driving through the area where the telephone poles were flattened at the time it happened. The storm was so violent she thought the windows of her car were going to shatter. Stories of damage were being told in the office.
But I noticed several things this morning. First of all, dark clouds were rolling in. But through the clouds, I saw a rainbow. The clouds quickly rolled over the rainbow to obscure the rainbow from view. But then I saw it again in a different area. Again, the clouds rolled over, hiding the rainbow again. A third time I saw the rainbow, bigger and brighter than the other two times, and again, in a new area. Then I saw the destruction that was all around me.
Two things came to mind. First, Gods promise to Noah. The storms were over. Healing was beginning. And two, sometimes we have no idea what destruction Almighty God protects us from ever seeing. I had no idea the storm was so ferocious last night. My family was safely protected in our home. We could hear the wind, but no destruction touched us. We were hidden in the Cleft of the Rock, that is Jesus.
Satan tried to hide the rainbows in more storm clouds. Too late. I have already seen the Salvation of Adonai.
“For my eyes have seen your salvation,”
Luke 2:30 NIV
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