Earlier this week, the kids and I were driving to run some errands. Okay, it was a Facebook Marketplace pickup, but same thing. We had finally gotten some much needed rain, and as were driving the kids pointed out a rainbow. Let me rephrase that, the kids pointed out the most vivid, clear, complete rainbow I had ever seen. You could see the end to end arch that branched over our car like a tunnel, and we drove underneath it the entirety of our journey. It truly was incredible. My son then begins to recount the story of Noah’s Ark, the flood, and God’s promise through the rainbow. The moment was so utterly magnificent that I thought to myself, Honestly, if there were to be a close call or something that happened on this drive we came out of, that would really be the Lord reminding us that He really is always with us.
Well, we eventually come to a four way intersection, awaiting our light to flip to green. Once it does, I ease my way on into the intersection, and before I could even make it halfway, out of the corner of my eye I see a massive pickup truck full on speeding our direction. When I say speeding, this wasn’t like a hurry and get through the yellow light (don’t act like you haven’t done it), but a full speed blast through a red light. In a split second I slammed on my brakes as the truck flew in front of us in a blur, and I am one hundred percent confident that had I not hit my brakes, we would have been T-Boned on my driver side, where my son was also sitting directly behind me. As soon as we got to our destination, I sat in the car with my kids and we prayed together, praising God for protecting us, and reminding us that yes, it’s not just a pretty promise of, “I’m always with you.” It’s reality. It’s as real as what could have happened to us if I hit my brakes half a second later. So let me just begin by saying, praise God for the good plans he has for me, my son, my daughter, and our family.
Further on in the week, I was reading with my oldest in Genesis, where we came to God’s promise to Abraham of protection over his generations of children to come. In Genesis 15, Abraham has waited years for a promised child and gets to a point where he is questioning God of how he is possibly going to be able to take this land God had spoken of. In the present, the situation seemed impossible, insurmountable, and no logical solution was in sight. So, what did God do?
He reminded him.
He reminded him of the promise he had already made and in turn established a covenant with him, reaffirming what he had already promised. If Abraham, who was in close proximity, communication, and relationship with God almighty needed reminders to keep the faith in times of uncertainty, how much more do we need them today? Remembering what God has done in our lives is sometimes one of the only tangible ways that we can take that next step forward when we seem to be up against a wall. Recounting what God has already done in the past is like an anchor; something that tethers us to his firm foundation when the winds around us begin to pick up speed, and things become unsure. Write them down in a journal, talk about them over a meal at dinner, speak of them when you rise, when you lay down, and as you go. Goodness, make a note on your phone and let it send itself to the cloud for all I care, but remember. When uncertainty comes your way, you don’t have to slap on a shiny facade of strength, you just have to remember who Christ was, is, and is to come.
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