The Miraculous in the Mundane – Look Up and Listen

Ever see a double-rainbow?  Most likely, if you’re over 10 years old, you have.  They are not all that rare as many people think, but there is a lesson in the double-rainbow.  Don’t be fooled by some of the pictures of double-rainbows; if the colors are in the same order, the photo was either doctored or it IS a RARE twin-rainbow.

A double rainbow in B.C., Canada

The rainbow was first seen by Noah, his wife, three sons and three daughters-in-law.  Father gave it as a sign of His covenant with them, “and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” (Genesis 9:10-11)

The simple reason a rainbow had not been yet seen, even though the world was roughly 1,500 years old, was that no rain had fallen; a mist would rise from the ground and water it (Genesis 2:6), suggesting a canopy of water above the atmosphere that created a greenhouse over the whole earth. (See Genesis 1:6-8.)  The Great Deluge, or Noah’s Flood, destroyed that protective canopy and allowed direct sunlight through the clouds, that had never been seen.  As the light filtered through the clouds, the rainbow appeared.

If the physics of rainbows seems to take away the mystery of God’s sign of His promise, note that just because we understand how He does something does not take away from the fact that He is the one doing it.  That Father chose to use a physical phenomenon to remind Himself . . . and us . . . of His promise should not surprise us, as He delights in using ‘ordinary things’ to show His amazing power and magnificence.  He shows His eternal power and divine nature in the cosmos (Romans 1); He revealed His care for the mistreated to Hagar by providing her an ordinary well (Genesis 21); He displayed His Presence to Moses in a bush (Exodus 3); He affirmed His mercy to an ordinary young woman in whom He created a body for the Messiah (Luke 1); and He shows up in myriads of times in our lives to protect, rescue and guide us . . . if we are just attentive to the miraculous in the mundane.  He loves using “jars of clay” (2 Corinthians 4:7) to reveal His enormous weight of glory.  “The whole world is a series of miracles, but we are so used to them that we call them ordinary things.” (Hans Christian Anderson)

Co-opted by the LGBTQMX8ZRW activists 🙄, this also does not reduce a rainbow’s beauty or significance.  “A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.” (C.S.Lewis)  The devil is not very creative and cannot seem to do anything new, so he attempts to use what God has given and ‘twist’ it just a bit to make us think it is his idea.  So love without genuine care becomes lust.  Justice without mercy becomes malicious.  Science without common sense becomes “proof” that the Creator of science does not even exist.  “Believing something doesn’t make it true.  A thing is true or not regardless of whether anyone believes it.” (Paul Little)

So what is the lesson in the double-rainbow?  If we have become jaded to a simple rainbow, or perverted it to a flag to represent something other than Father’s intention, perhaps He just wants to remind us that He is present even in our darkening age.  Against the clouds of confusion over gender, masks, vaccines, military movements and political lies, He reminds us that His love and holiness still provide beauty and meaning to our world.

As He speaks through the universe, as He has spoken most clearly through Yeshua (Jesus, the Messiah), as He has revealed Himself through prophets, priests, kings, children and women throughout the Bible, He still speaks to us today.  “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” (Hebrews 4:7)  So look up and listen for His voice.  Find His miracles in the mundane.  He is here and He is not silent.

“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.” Romans 10:17
Have you experienced a miracle that others thought was ordinary?  Perhaps you thought at first, “This is just normal,” only to discover later that you were part of a miracle?