Genesis 8:21-22 & 9:11-16 - God keeps His promises

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” - Genesis 8:21-22

Sometimes things can seem to be completely out of control, and it's good to remember that we can rely on God's word. These verses are part of the story of Noah and the promise God makes to Noah immediately after the flood.

The second part of the promise is in the next chapter^:

I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.” - Genesis 9:11-16

I love rainbows because they always remind me of this story and that God does keep His promises - we can rely on what He says and what He tells us He's going to do. It's very reassuring to know that even if we don't know what's going on, God does.

For the art I used my watercolour paints to create a very simple rainbow background and then did the lettering in the margin. I'd prepped my page with gesso, but missed a few bits around the edges. Fortunately the paint didn't bleed through, so the only result was that it looked a bit darker on the front of the page on the un-gessoed bits.