Have
you had your Joy Juice today? One of
God’s most beautiful creations is the rainbow. And though there is NO pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow, we find treasures of joy when we focus on God
and His blessings.
John
Ortberg uses the term “Rainbow Days” in his book God Is Closer Than You
Think. We are reminded that God placed a rainbow in the sky (after the
flood) as a symbol of his covenant with Noah.
Ortberg
writes that when we experience “rainbow days”, God’s presence is hard to
miss. Though we have not had a “Noah-kind” of experience, we each have our
own stories of God’s intervention, protection and blessing. To quote Orberg:
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“On rainbow days your life is filled with
too much goodness and meaning for you to believe it is simply by chance.
·
On rainbow days you find yourself wanting to
pray, believing that God hears (your
prayers).
·
On rainbow days God seems to speak
personally to you through Scripture. You
find yourself believing that it is a good thing to be alive, and each good
thing you see fills you with gratitude toward the God who made it.
·
When you’re in this zone, the kids can spill
red Kool-Aid on a white carpet and you laugh patiently and remind them that you
often spilled things yourself when you were a child.”
In other
words, on “rainbow days”, we’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in our hearts!
Though all our days will not be “rainbow days”, here’s hoping that today
will be a joyfully blessed one!
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