reminded.

i was talking to one of my favorite people on a drive over the weekend.  i asked her the question how does she see God in her life these days. i was asking because she has had to walk through hard things, confusing things, over and over unanswered things. i asked because as her friend i find myself wondering about God’s bigger picture – wondering why healing hasn’t taken place, asking questions at times wondering where God is working – not because of things my friend tells me but because of my own self and thinking that I know what is best.

do you know what her answer to my question was?

God is faithful.

As this hardship lingers on he continues to show himself true to his faithfulness.

It’s true and I know it’s true, but I was amazed how she was able to see it and know it in the midst of what is upon her shoulders each day. i can’t believe in any way it is easy – but she’s believing and seeing His faithfulness.  I found myself challenged through her words.  I found myself admiring the ways in which she choose to believe.

Throughout the conversation I had been driving through rain.  As our conversation ended the rain slowed down and the weather just seemed to turn strange.  There was evening sunlight blinding me in my rearview mirror, and yet I was driving into the darkest gray skies.  I seemed to be in that eerie in-between light, the kind that sometimes shows itself before a greater storm.  I was alert to the changes around me and then caught off guard by what I saw.  I saw a small piece of a rainbow, and I smiled and thought how lovely.  That patch was just the beginning of the release of a perfect rainbow that stretched in a giant archway across me.  I can’t tell you the feelings that were exposed in me as I continued to stare at this masterpiece in awe.  I am unsure if I have ever seen a rainbow such as this one, and the word that came to me was faithful.  Rainbows are a promise of God’s faithfulness.

I thought it was interesting time to see a rainbow in light of the conversation I had just had with my friend.  I found myself thinking about things in my own life and areas in which I have seen God’s faithfulness.  Ways in which I am amazed at how He continues after me even in times when I find myself lacking over and over again.  Ways in which he gives and gives and gives.

I sent a picture of the rainbow to my friend.  Her response was true and a further etching of a reminder.

He who promised is faithful.

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