Genesis 9:13-15
I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
God keeps His promises!! What a blessed truth to hold onto for the believer. Not everyone keeps their promises and not everyone even remembers what they promise. When God put the rainbow in the sky for Noah as a reminder about His promise to never destroy the earth again with a flood, God did not do so because He was afraid He would forget. He put the bow in the sky so that we wouldn't forget. The only thing that God forgets is our sin when we come to Christ and He casts it behind His back and remembers it no more. Even then the phrase is used in regard to the fact that God dosen't hold our sins to our account anymore. In the above few verses what we see is that God has given us a sign of His promise-keeping. We can rest and be assured that what God says, He will do ... or, in this case, not do ever again. We need the reminder of the bow to keep us focused on God. Despite the difficulty of what Noah and his family had just been through (years of making the ark, being scorned by society, gathering the animals, living on the ark) he would probably forget most of the experience. Time does that to us. We can go through very bad things and years later they are only a brief memory. So, the bow was to remind Noah, his family, and us, that God makes promises, keeps the promises and that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Remember, the bow is to remember that God will NEVER again destroy the earth because of man's sin. Noah was not destroyed, so each time he saw the bow in the sky it would remind him of God's grace in the past (to save him and his family) and of God's grace in the future (despite man's sin God would not destroy them in this manner). The bow is a picture of God's grace. The bow is a reminder that God makes promises. The bow is a bookmark to helps us remember that God keeps His promises. Read what Paul says about Abraham and the promises of God:
Romans 4:20-21
yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.
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