Colors Divine - Starts with Water and Ends with Fire

I awoke from a dream filled with a great burden. The pain of love and loss.  A mix of my own but surprisingly most of which comes from another's experience - this I cannot explain. With deep despair I think of those who do not know Him or those who's faith is weakened by the worries of this world. How can I take what overflows from my heart and give to you so you may be reminded of His love and promises in your own valley walk in darkness!?! Oh friend, my soul longs for His goodness to heal you and His love to overflow in you! He promises He is not finished with your story. 

Wait patiently my friend for the clouds will part. 

His will flows like water and burns like fire. And so the dreams of mine eyes sweating blood in times of praise, that I could not escape turned to many pairs of eyes with blood red tear stained faced all joined together in songs of praises of His glory! And so I prayed again for prophets to wake up and go and tell. 

Romans 14:7-9 ESV

[7] For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. [8] For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. [9] For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

https://bible.com/bible/59/rom.14.7-9.ESV

Perhaps my purpose seems plain enough. Is this clarity? For am I to serve the church,  am I to work in the Lord's vineyard - the church? For it is the branches grafted to our Heavenly Father that bears the good fruit that produce the best wine. And does not the Lord deserve the very best, right now!? He does. 

While there is much disappointing fruit and branches in need of pruning, with sharpened shears, each cut is made with agape love in preparation for a better next yield in a future season.

The Harvest Is Plentiful, the Laborers Few

Matthew 9

35 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; 38 therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

So in the cool of the morning I walked, filled with the Spirit singing praises and resting in the peace that comes with seeking His will. I looked up and in front of me a beam of morning light cut through the clouds and the rainbow that appeared screamed of His glory and goodness! 

And so in that moment I was overcome for the grace and promises that flow from heaven above in the presence of his beautiful creation, a splendor in the storm in the valley in front of me... but also in the valley inside my own heart. 💔 
And so, the rainbow is a reminder of how the unseen is made visible in the light.
For there is FAR more life and light than just what you see with your eyes. There are spectrums simply not visible with the naked eye.

Science of refraction  from Wikipedia:

In physics, refraction is the redirection of a wave as it passes from one medium to another. The redirection can be caused by the wave's change in speed or by a change in the medium. 

The refractive index of materials varies with the wavelength of light,[3] and thus the angle of the refraction also varies correspondingly. This is called dispersion... 

The most familiar example of dispersion is probably a rainbow, in which dispersion causes the spatial separation of a white light into components of different wavelengths (different colors).

So.... When light refracts within a falling drop, it scatters ALL light, what is seen and unseen, the visible and invisible. The white light is divided into its spectral color at 42 degrees opposite the sun.

Did you know? For 42 months (3 1/2 years) the beast will be given authority.

So 42 degrees opposite the sun is where you need to be at in order to even see the rainbow. Other angles and its not visible - you have to be in the right spot!

Is that not also true of our spriritual walk - being in the right spot for seeing?

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR RAINBOWS AT THE WRONG ANGLE? OR CHASING POTS OF GOLD?

Revelation 3:1-2 ESV

[1] “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. [2] Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. 

https://bible.com/bible/59/rev.3.1-2.ESV

The Lord specifically mentions the rainbow as a reminder that he will not flood the earth again, a remnant of the great destruction when the Lord was heart was broken by the evil hearts of men. What calamity! How the angels too must have wept in anguish as the image bearers and most of creation was drowned in the flood waters. Also interesting is that the original Hebrew word here is used much more frequently to describe the bow - a weapon )

So perhaps a dual reminder:

of the grace God provided Noah but also

... the bow whispers of judgement.

Whats the bible say about rainbows? It is a reminder of how God judges sin. After the rains stopped:

20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man 's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." 

While the earth remains... My time is but a vapor! I find it critical to prepare for the last harvest for we know not when the sickle strikes. With the Japanese beetles eating my morning glories, the recent pandemic that swept the globe, raising ocean temps... The end may be nearer than one thinks!

So I prepare. The Lord will be with me in each step of faith I take. For his promises are true and his goodness and love for his children limitless. Trust Him in the darkness brother! For even in the storm there is light sister!

Open your eyes and rise from the dead!

For there is life, lightness and illumination of His glory when you put faith in the Creator in the storm. 

Oh Ye of little faith?!?!?

What path does He have for me? I can only see the next few steps if I walk out of the darkness of my slumber of  unpreparedness and then walk in love.

Ephesians 5:8 ESV

[8] for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 

https://bible.com/bible/59/eph.5.8.ESV

We know not where or when there are ears to hear for that is the Lords timing to stir in the hearts of His children. So I will write, speak and take action as I am called. 

1 Timothy 6:15-16 ESV

[15] which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, [16] who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

https://bible.com/bible/59/1ti.6.15-16.ESV

And so I take hold of the eternal life to which I was called. I will worship my King by the laying up of treasure not found here. But in the next life.