Spokane River
“We’re after the same rainbow’s end, waiting ‘round the bend…”
Onward with this Moon River journey
This river is moving fast, it is in a hurry to get somewhere—I wonder where? While the song suggests drifting down the lazy river just taking things as they come, maybe the river in a hurry is more like how we live today.
We are not on a raft just floating along, we are usually in a kayak or those yellow river rafts and we are shooting rapids. We try to avoid the rocks in the way or the eddies surrounding those rocks that will keep us going in circles until we are rescued, but we still run the rapids. For some, it is exciting, for others it can be terrifying.
If we manage to escape all the dangers, then maybe we will make it to the upcoming curve and onward to where we cannot now see.
Perhaps there is a rainbow’s end somewhere around the bend.
What is it we are hoping to see? The pot of gold shooting those rainbow colors as if to say, “Look at me! Look at me!” Life’s material glitter that we call success. How hard will we look?
The Promise
The rainbow is God’s promise to us that He doesn’t forget us. The first one came after a global flood, and God was in it all. It isn’t gold waiting for us, it’s the loving arms of our Heavenly Father.
After all the striving and stroking at waves to maneuver our boats, there is a place prepared for us when we come to the rainbow’s end. He has promised us that it is so.
Entering Together
In studying through Revelation this year in Bible Study Fellowship, we are now finishing the course—and it is a rainbow’s end kind of place. I want to share an insight I gained: those who are dead in the body but alive in Jesus (and with Him now) are waiting for the rest of us. Then we will ALL go into the new heaven and new earth together with Jesus. Is that not wonderful? We are told in Revelation that there are rainbows all around the Throne of God. I guess that’s where He took them from when He spread them across our skies.
Most definitely the pot of gold worth seeking!
“I go to prepare a place for you. I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I AM, you will be also” John 14:3.
Rainbow by Serzhol
What a beautiful post! It brought peace to my soul. I love that we are clothed in rainbows of living color and that God’s throne is surrounded by rainbows. How wonderful to celebrate our connectedness with Christ’s return & our God-encounters “on earth as it is in heaven.” Bring it!
Yes, it is the most beautiful image I have in my mind, too. Knowing, through Rev. that rainbows surround His throne, I wonder what else would He have given Noah-and us-for a promise? Wow! Mind-boggling!