Rest with Jesus
This evening I was walking towards my house, dodging rain drops and watching the gray clouds skim by.  A thin, wispy ribbon of a rainbow was off to the north.  In just a few moments the other end of the rainbow appeared in the south and pretty soon the whole rainbow glowed in front of my eyes.

I felt like I was standing before the gates of heaven.  The gloomy clouds continued to move along but the rainbow stood brilliant through them all.  It was like an arch of a great doorway beckoning me to look through it.

Eventually it started to fade, but the clouds soon turned from gray to pink and the sky chorused with blue. This beautiful display of God’s nature spoke to my heart in a most profound way.

Sisters and brothers, the Lord will never leave us.  He is always with us no matter how dark and stirred up the sky is.  It doesn’t matter if we don’t see his rainbow and only see the clouds, it is still there encircling us with God’s love.

Unlike the apostle Peter, always fix your eyes on Him and pay no attention to the storms that threaten your peace. But if your eyes do look at the trouble around you, all you need do is cry to him and he will lift you out of the stormy sea and into the boat.

When hard times press in, my husband often will imagine himself in the boat with Jesus. There he rests and there Jesus brings the boat to shore.