Drowning in Mud Puddles

 "Genesis 9: 14--17

If you live in the southern part of Kentucky, then in the last few weeks you have been witness to terrential rain and have probably wondered at times if perhaps you should make like Noah and build an ark. This past saturday was the worst. I was starting to question if God had forgotten his promise to never flood the earth again... but then I saw a rainbow.

So this got me thinking about Noah. After spending days, even months on a boat and watching the pouring rain, I'm sure Noah was getting tired of seeing the rain and hoping the sun would peek out from behind those storm clouds. I would even venture to say that perhaps Noah woke up every morning dreading the day ahead of him. He probably thought to himself, 'if it rains today God, I'm gonna...' But in the end, everything worked out. The water dried up and God even created a rainbow as a promise to Noah that he would never flood the earth again.

Sometimes in life it rains. Sometimes it rains for days on end, even for months and years. Parents divorce, relationships end badly, we find ourselves falling into sin time after time after time. We wonder where God is. Why would he allow us to go through these things? However, he made us a promise. He said he would never put more on us than we could bear.

So the next time you feel like drowning in the mud puddles of life, look in the Word for a rainbow. A rainbow is a promise."