Covenant Song

Red blood pours down around His face, the thorns unrelenting.
A warrior’s cry of grace. 

Orange fire descending from His throne, calling you. It is time to come home.

Yellow love, like glorious joy, wells up within. The presence of God whom we delight in.
Green sprigs of lushes growth, a healing mark. Hope of restoration. 
Our heavenly start.
Waters of Blue, streaming of life. Flow Holy Spirit, cleanse us of strife.
Purple promise and purpose, a place to belong. 
All priesthood and kingship, sing a covenant song.

My little sister left me a neat surprise in my Christmas stocking this year. She had drawn my name in bubble letters and wrote at the top "red and yellow, pink and green and purple and blue- I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too".

I thought of the story of Noah where God flooded the earth, all except for those living in an ark. After the season of flooding had come and gone, God gave the promise of a rainbow. A covenant with Noah that He would never destroy the whole earth again.

Rainbows have been so powerful in meaning to me for a long time. Now I more clearly understand why. May we never stop singing praise, a living thanks, a covenant song. A cry of purpose and gratitude, to our God. To our Father whom has declared, we forever have a place to belong.