"You going to search for the pot of gold?", the gas attendant said to me this morning as I was admiring the huge rainbow that seemed to go for at least 30 miles while pumping gas. "I wish", I replied. But it wasn't pots of gold that I was thinking of. I was remembering the significance of rainbows in the scriptures.



The obviously notable one refers to the covenant between the Lord and Noah and his people:

And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall 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 the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. - Genesis 9:12-17.

The rainbow was placed there as a token of the covenant between The Lord and the earth. Note the significance of tokens and covenants and the word remember.

In the mortal world, the saying is that rainbows give you good luck. It has been penned in a very familiar song:

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby.
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream,
Really do come true.

So, if I were to deduce a formula based on the above data, it would come out something like this:

The rainbow was a covenant between the Lord as a token that He and we will remember the promises made by the Lord.

Rainbows are generally shown to be good, positive things where dreams that we dare to dream can come true.

Therefore, covenants are good for mankind; that is if we follow them, we can find eternal happiness.

Covenants given to mankind by the Lord are not punishments or un-positive experiences. They exist to help us remember who we are, where we came from and what our divine potentials are. We have tokens in this life to help us remember those covenants - such as sacrament and temple blessings.

Unlike the famous song, we don't have to "dare to dream" to have our dreams come true. We just need to follow simple commandments given to us to by our loving Eternal Father to help us to be happy on this earth.

 

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