The Second Rainbow.

So, here I am again, evaluating myself and my actions against the concept of sin and righteousness. It is so easy to get sucked back in to the way I've thought in the past. And here comes the cavalry in the form of Calvary. No verbal voice, but the reassuring thought that it wasn't how well I performed before he saved me that saved me. What would be the purpose of caring for how well I did after the fact?

What was it that he changed in me? Was it that he only gave me some capacity to be better than I was? Then I should always be victim to this comparison game. Good news! I am changed because I now see how it was he saved me. Dead to the game of comparing, of needing to eke out some worthiness through trying to establish a positive balance on my performance ledger. That reassuring thought saying how much he loves me to be here in the midst of the recurring doubt, "You are worthy because I am here; my promise to you,"...the second covenant, the second rainbow. 

Rainbows are glorious things. God said he put the bow in the sky, a promise that he would never revisit with a flood to destroy us. Christ, the second rainbow; the promise that he will never revisit with judgment to destroy us, for in Christ, we have been judged already.