'I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW ....THE RAIN IS GONE.'

It never pays to look for the rainbow till the rain has gone. It is the only way to be sure of the faithfulness of God's promises.

The rock of man's existence and all of creation is the faithfulness of God. The gospel is the story of that faithfulness. Man does not need faith, he needs a faithful God. The only One who can assure us of an everlasting existence at home with God is Jesus, the One who was the first born of that Father God, standing before Him as creation was spoken into being, rejoicing even then and delighting in man, the crown of that creation, made in the highest possible likeness of God. The only image of God permitted on earth to represent and rule in God's name over all He made, carrying the praises of that creation back into the courts of heaven.