Promises

Okay, I have come to a conclusion. Do you want to know what it is? Well....

I've decided that I'm a horrible blogger. Honestly, I thought this would be easy... "Yes! A blog! I love writing, and I do a lot of it. This should be a cinch!" thinks Holly one rainy day in April as she creates her new blog.

And here we are, September already for goodness's sake, and I have what, ten posts?

Yeah....that's Holly the writer for you. I can think of four things I should have blogged about since August, and for some reason, I just haven't. I've failed miserably. Forgive me. Now that I have reached that conclusion, I've determined to set about being a better blogger.  Haha, that was a funny sentence. =) So, I'm going to write a catching-up post for you all (I promise!) so you know what's been going on in Holly's life (because it hasn't been dull!), but right now, I'm going to write about something that I saw tonight.

I saw a rainbow!

Okay, I know, now you might be thinking, "Wowww, she saw a rainbow. Cool. I should probably get off the computer anyway." Stay with me here! I'm going to be honest...again. (And, if I hadn't seen that rainbow, I probably wouldn't be posting!)

Though I love rainbows, I've never thought seriously about them or what they signify. (Maybe I'm not the only one?) I've seen one or two huge ones at the beach that were incredible, but I'm usually just thinking about how pretty it is, or how much I wish I had a good camera right now. Tonight, I was outside with my little brother picking cucumbers and covering up my tomatoes because it's chilly. It was drizzling, which was fun, and then before I even realized that the sun had come out, Kirk was saying, "Holly, look at that rainbow!" I stepped out of the garden, and, looking past the pear tree, saw the most beautiful rainbow I've seen in my entire life. I really did gasp. In awe.

This picture doesn't hardly do it justice. But at least you can kind of get an idea of how amazing it was. It wasn't the biggest I've ever seen, but it was the most perfect. There were these huge dark clouds to either side of it, and the sunlight was cutting right through them. The drizzly rain was coming down harder, and the colors were vibrant. I stood in the middle of our field and was amazed by rainbows.

Genesis 9:8-17:
Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Tonight, God remembered His covenant that He made between Himself and everything that is on the earth. Is it just me, or are you a little blown away by rainbows? They also make me remember God's amazing creativeness. Really, as if clouds, sun, stars, and moon weren't enough, He also gave us the rainbow, His direct promise to us.

There's another promise that God has made that I wanted to bring up. I was thinking a little while ago how amazing it is that no matter how old we get, no matter how many mistakes we make, no matter how many friends or family we lose along the way, we always have Jesus. He says to us, "And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
Isn't that an amazing promise as well? There's no guarantee that our parents or our siblings or our best friends are going to live through tomorrow, let alone our whole lives. But, Jesus says He's here for us until the end of the world, whether that's in the next week or the next century. And not only does He say it, but it's also true. It's a promise that only He can make.

Isn't He good?