DCLM Sincere Milk 8 March 2022 — The rainbow
DCLM Sincere Milk 8 March 2022 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — The rainbow
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TOPIC: THE RAINBOW
BIBLE TEXT: GENESIS 9:9-17
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
KEY VERSE: “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth” (Genesis 9:13).
MESSAGE:
The people in Noah’s days were rebellious and wicked. They refused to obey God and went their own way. God sent Noah, whom He found to be righteous, to tell them to turn away from their wicked ways, but they refused to listen.
God told Noah to build an Ark as a place of refuge and salvation for himself and members of his family. He was going to bring rain on the earth to destroy every living creature. They still did not believe Noah. When the Ark was completed, God told Noah to take members of his family and also male and female of every animal into the Ark. When the assignment was completed, God locked them all in and released the rain from heaven. Water covered the whole earth, and every living thing perished. As the flood waters rose, Noah’s eight-member family enjoyed God’s divine protection under God’s loving care.
At God’s appointed time, the waters on the earth dried up. Noah and his family with the animals came out, and God gave the rainbow as a sign of the promise never to destroy the earth with water again. The rainbow should remind us of God’s mercy and His faithfulness to His Word. Today, Jesus is our ‘ARK of Safety’. Come to Him, and you will be kept safe from all evil that would come upon disobedient children.
PRAYER: God, please help me to believe Your Word and live by it, so as to be free from the coming judgment.
FURTHER READING: Isaiah 55:9-11
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
