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# A Rainbow's Beginning
- URL: https://brewedfaith.ca/a-rainbows-beginning/
- Published: 2017-06-13T15:07:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-14T04:50:36.000Z
- Author: Tim Gibb
- Tags: Soul Care, Uncategorized, faith, heart ache, Jesus' return, passion, rainbow, Relationships, second coming, yearning, #Migrated-1786683019158, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-14 00:50

It amazes me how the seasons pass, how time moves so very quickly. I looked out the window just a week ago and saw a flood of rain coming down...so much rain. It felt as though it was just snowing. Now I tend the garden again, planting seeds, seeing them grow into bean, zucchini and tomato plants. The heat is upon us once more.

In the heat of the evening, a rainbow began to emerge. It began creeping up into the sky and became brilliant as people walked out of their homes and looked, stared for a moment in disbelief at something so beautiful and excellent. Then the cameras and cell phones came out, taking pictures and videos to remember the moment. It was for some, the moment when the greatest rainbow they had ever seen appeared over them.

For many it was nothing more than a beautiful sight, colour in the sky. For others it was the refracting, bending and reflecting of slowed white light.

I saw a promise kept. I was reminded that God is a promise-keeping God. I was reminded that God loves me and cares enough for me that he put this beautiful example of His grace in the sky.

There is another promise that I am passionately looking forward to seeing fulfilled. It is a promise that Jesus made that my heart aches for. I long for Jesus' return. He tells us that He will return for us, His angels told the disciples that He would return the same way he left and I am on the edge of my seat waiting.

I am so often torn between now and then. Between the present and the perfect. I desire so badly to see Jesus face to face. I don't know if you feel the same way, if you yearn from the pit of your being to see the one that created you and saved you. I do. Some days it is a tolerable yearning, a tolerant waiting.

Today it is not. Today I want Him to come.

I don't want Him to come because I want this rollercoaster of a life to end, because my day hasn't started well, or even because I worry about life. I want Him to come to be nearer to Him. You know the feeling of being away from the person that you love, you talk on the phone and you just want to reach out and feel their touch. It is that feeling of true togetherness that you miss.

I read the gospels and see Jesus interacting with His disciples, teaching them and encouraging them, rebuking them, weeping and laughing with them and I can only imagine what it was like to journey with Him. How his disciples must have ached for His return even more than I do now. Paul tells the Philippians that he desired to depart and be with Christ. He believed that being with Christ was better by far. Paul wrote of his conviction to be with God's people in body but longed for complete union with Jesus, even in death. His love and desire to be with Jesus was that great. The longing for Jesus was that strong.

I see a rainbow and I remember the promise that God made never to flood the whole earth and destroy all living things. But it also reminds me of another promise yet to be fulfilled - Jesus' return. How I long for the day that I stand with Jesus, walk with Jesus and commune in perfect peace with Jesus.

Do you yearn for His return?