It's still there, you just can't see it from this angle.

Have you ever had a "God wink"? I had one today.

I was feeling really down about my family, job, health, just everything I suppose. So I went for a jog around Lake Busbee. It is closed to traffic, so when you get around the back side, you are alone with the water and sky.

As I jogged, I just prayed and just poured out my burdens to God. And then, as if in answer, I rounded the corner and looked up. There before me was a brilliant rainbow reaching from horizon to horizon. I was completely alone there at the back side of the lake, so I stopped and thanked Him out loud for the sign of the covenant He made with Noah:

"And God said, 'This is the sign of the covenant which I am making with you and every living creature that is with you, for all generations;
I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth..." (Genesis 9:12)

Then, as I jogged farther, my angle to the sky changed and I watched the rainbow slowly disappear, even though I knew it must still be there shining brightly as ever at the back side of the lake.

And it occurred to me that life is like that. Very often from the earthly "angle" we can't see the glory of His heavenly kingdom, but it is still there waiting for us. Waiting, in the words of C.S. Lewis, to surprise us with joy.

So I am encouraged to jog on in life, trusting that the glory I cannot see or even feel is still there waiting for me at the end of my journey.

Now I know that many will dismiss the Genesis account as a myth, and remind us that we now know the scientific explanation for rainbows. But has it ever occurred to them that at the end of the flood, natural climactic conditions changed so radically that rainbows became possible for the first time? Thus it became the perfect symbol of the eternal promise of God never to flood the earth again. (And by the way, the reminder of the final cataclysm at the end of the world- II Peter 3:1-13).

So we see that mysterious blending of natural and supernatural phenomena in the rainbow. A natural occurence which is both symbol and reality at the same time. Sacred and natural, refracted sunlight and the Light of Life visible in this dark, fallen world.