Sin and the Rainbow

from Agape Press
by Rev. Mark H. Creech

John Daniel Jones, once the great minister of the Richmond Hill Congregational Church in Bournemouth, England, put it this way:

"[T]hat dark and gloomy and threatening cloud of sin is still in our sky -- a cloud full of lightnings and thunders and bodeful of storm and tempest. We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is none that doeth good, no not one. We are all of us shut up under the law of sin and death. But, thank God, I can see his bow in the cloud!

... When people tell us there is no cloud big with storm and tempest above our heads, when they try to persuade us that sin is a mere bogey -- it is at our peril we believe them. The cloud is there, sin exists. We have only to look in our own hearts to know that it exists. And sin is no light thing -- it is a terrible thing, an awful thing, a deadly thing.

All the world is guilty before God. And God hates sin and is sworn to punish it. But if I had to leave it there, it would be a heartbreaking tale I had to tell. For it would be a message of doom and woe. But I have not to leave it there.

God hates sin -- but he loves the sinner .... And his love falling on the black cloud of our sins creates the beautiful rainbow of mercy .... What God did in the wealth of His love in view of human sin was to give His only begotten Son, and as a result of what Jesus did on the Cross, mercy is made possible for every sinner.

Christ crucified is the rainbow.

The threatening and menacing cloud is in the sky of every one of us.

Have we all seen the rainbow?"

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