Sunday, May 21, 2006

Double Promise

yesterday we had a sudden storm.... the sun was shining all the way through, but there were dark clouds rolling across the sky, heavy rain, and gusts galore.

and i saw the most brilliant double rainbow i've ever seen.

both rainbows arched from the ground, up and across all the way across the sky, and all the way down to the ground again.... two full and complete rainbows.

and to top it all off, the rainbows didn't just disapper into the ground somewhere into the distance, behind a hill or some buildings.... no, it was in front of everything, practically into the ground at our feet.

we drove over a trainyard on an overpass, and i could see the rainbow in front of all the tracks, coloring the grime of the dark, ugly boxcars.

i can't help but feel, in retrospect, that it's indicitive of God's promises to me... they are all encompassing (full arches), more than i could ever imagine (double rainbows), and very present, very real, very now (into the ground very close to us).

not to mention that if i look at my life through God's eyes, it colors everything in the world the colors of His promises.

it felt like a rainbow hug from God.

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Outcast, Adopted.

THIS BLOG IS IN NEED OF AN OVERHAUL. there are posts from years back i would not be able to post in good conscience now. i plan to overhaul the blog, and either delete or add a disclaimer to those posts. but that is gonna take time....

The Radical Summons: "
Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach He endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come." Hebrews 13:13.

"The Spirit never loosens where the Word binds; the Spirit never justifies where the Word condemns; the Spirit never approves where the Word disapproves; the Spirit never blesses where the Word curses." —Thomas Brooks

‎"God receives none but those who are forsaken, restores health to none but those who are sick, gives sight to none but the blind, and life to none but the dead. He does not give saintliness to any but sinners, nor wisdom to any but fools. In short: He has mercy on none but the wretched and gives grace to none but those who are in disgrace. Therefore no arrogant saint, or just or wise man can be material for God, neither can he do the work of God, but he remains confined within his own work and makes of himself a fictitious, ostensible, false, and deceitful saint, that is, a hypocrite." --Martin Luther (W.A. 1.183ff)

i will not let You go: "Jacob's sense of his total debility and utter defeat is now the secret of his power with his friendly Vanquisher. God can overthrow all the prowess of the self-reliant, but He cannot resist the earnest entreaty of the helpless." --Albert Barnes

i will not let You go: "Jacob's determination did not flow from his strength, it flowed from his weakness." --Charles Leiter