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I read the quote recently, “Count your rainbows, not your thunderstorms.” It is very basic at first glance, but the reality is, it is quite spiritual.

Most people (including myself) tend to focus on the storms that seem to always come up and they come.....sometimes daily. Whether it is a late bill, a sick child, the death of a parent, unemployment, or an unsaved spouse, there our storms surrounding us. Be it natural disasters darkening our very door or spiritual enemies hindering our spirit, we are bombarded with attacks.

It is in our human nature to place emphasis on the storm and devalue the victories. I have great news! When new storms come, it probably means old storms have passed away. It also means that we have had victory in certain areas of life. While focusing on the rainbow which also represents the promise of God as seen in Genesis 9:12,

Genesis 9:12 (Whole Chapter)
God continued, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you. I'm putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life. When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth."

We minimize the anxiety of the battle ahead. We recollect on the times when bills were paid with no money, bodies were healed, people (including ourselves) were delivered, and God took care of every situation. In Luke 8:22, the scripture says that when the disciples were on the boat with Jesus and the storm came, he spoke and the storm ceased.

If we are consistently recollecting on the times when God came through for us in the midst of the storm, we will always see the next rainbow. Every time there is another rainbow, it will encourage us to push harder and trust more because then we realize that God is with us, EVEN IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM.

Kasey Scott

Kasey is currently a high school English teacher, whose students are young ladies who are substance dependent and incarcerated. Kasey has a passion to reach into the lives of girls in desperate situations and show them the Hope that is available in Jesus Christ. She also is the VP and Director of Curriculum Design for Edvance Services, an educational services company she co-founded with her husband.