Awesome God

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The rain had slowed to spitting just a few drops, the sun was pushing its way through the remaining clouds, and the rainbow, oh the rainbow! 

It stretched across the whole sky, a full semi circle.  We marveled at it all the way home.  While we walked, Ning shared, "Most Thais, the regular Buddhists, you know, think it is bad luck to point at a rainbow.  They say your finger will fall off." 

I quickly tucked my hand, the one that was just pointing at the amazing rainbow,  into my pocket and looked around.  No one seemed to notice.

"But now that I know where rainbows come from, that God created them as a promise for us, I like them a lot more." Ning continued.

This got me thinking about how awesome our God is.  He created our earth and the universe.  The sun and every water droplet that the sun reflects off of to make a rainbow.  All the animals, big and small.  The giant elephants that Thailand loves and the millions of ants that crawl in your yard and mine.  He knows all the grains of sand in the sea and on the shoreline. 

And God didn't stop there.  Think about a sky full of stars.  Did you know, there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the earth?  God created each one.  He knows them all and gave each one a name. 

Wow!  That's a lot of names.  And my little brain has a hard time keeping track of the names of the twelve dark headed kids in my Sunday School class. :)

"He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names." Psalm 147:4

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