THE RAINBOW
While on my way to work, I noticed a rainbow. Faint, yet very distinct, the colours were visible in their usual order—ROYGBIV never break rank. It felt like a reminder of God’s sometimes still, small, yet unmistakable voice.
Truthfully, I had been looking for a sign of what to write this week, after feeling as though God had been silent. Eventually, I stopped contemplating. Then, unexpectedly, as I resumed my pondering at the almost “midnight mark”, God responded. It was subtle, yet undeniably clear, especially considering the topic for which solid confirmation was needed.
But the rainbow was more than confirmation. It was a beautiful reminder of God’s promise and His created order. For some, however, it represents something else entirely.
LAWS OF NATURE
Today the world is filled with confusion, riddled with deception about God’s work of art. Spearheaded by the adversary, humanity has continually attempted to rewrite the script, override God’s design, and recreate our narratives, our beliefs, and our perceptions.
When did this come to be? When were we given the authority to take our own pen and scribble over or rewrite a design that was never ours to change in the first place?
Truthfully, it’s not always easy to make sense of God’s created order. Much like principles such as gravity, magnetism, or Newton’s Law of Motion, these concepts are often hard for us to grasp. For many of us, they are bitter reminders of dreaded physics classes we endured but did not enjoy. We may not understand the formulas behind them, yet when we shake a tree and our favourite mango falls, or we place a magnetised reminder on our refrigerator, we are reminded that these laws are firmly in place.
Even amid our limited understanding, these laws exist—will not change—and they shape how we live and experience the world. Purpose is woven into them, and they reflect God’s intentional design. Nothing functions without order. Scripture reminds us that God is not the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33).
The behaviour of magnets, then, is not accidental. It is intentional. The earth itself acts like a magnet due to its iron core. Because of this, when we use a compass to find our way, we are interacting with God’s created order. The needle of a compass is a small magnet. Its positive pole aligns with the earth’s magnetic field, providing guidance and keeping us from getting lost.
GOD’S DIVINE ORDER FOR US
And so, if God is this intentional about nature, gravity, and things we’re unable to fully comprehend, how much more intentionality did He place within His children, whom He has called to reflect Him?
This is a simple truth. Opposite poles attract, like poles repel. A magnet cannot wake up one day and force itself to alter its created order. There is no technology or ideology under the sun that can hijack God’s design or redefine its purpose.
Similarly, when God said, “male and female He created them,” He meant that. When God said, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,” He meant that as well.
Yet, since the beginning of time, the adversary has sought to creep in with ideologies riddled with deception, often sprinkled with fragments of truth, with phrases like “God is love” and “Love is love.” Indeed, God is love. Yet Scripture also tells us that “love does not delight in evil, but rejoices in the truth” (1 Corinthians 13:6).
The enemy’s intent has always been the same: to oppose God’s order—His purpose, His principles, His people, and His Kingdom.
FALLING PREY: A PERSONAL TESTIMONY
I too fell prey to LGBTQI deception when I was in high school. I remember seasons spent praying to a God I barely knew, asking Him to make their ideologies acceptable, asking Him to change His laws of nature. Years were spent trying to force the wrong wires together, which only led to short circuits in my own life. The enemy’s intent was to keep me in darkness, on a path that was destructive and would ultimately lead to further devastation. And so, what once felt like nature, what once felt like home, began to resemble the eternal torment that awaited.
No matter how much we bargain with nature or wrestle with God, birds still fly, fish still swim, ants still crawl, opposites still attract, and like poles still repel. We were designed to be man and woman, not man with man nor woman with woman.
The god of this world often tries to blind our minds (2 Corinthians 4:4). Yet, when something tries to operate outside of its intended purpose, it doesn’t change the Creator’s intent. It only proves to be evidence of the enemy’s fingerprints, just as they were present in the garden of Eden.
It often feels like a restriction to go against how we feel, especially when the screams of our flesh are louder than the still, yet unmistakable, voice of God. But these are not restrictions; they are limitations governed by the Saviour’s protection. They are an expression of His love, the kind of love that says, “I want what is best for you.” Although often, His best does not feel like the best until we have made a mess and find ourselves needing His grace, like the Prodigal Son.
KEEP PRAYING (LUKE 18:1 AND EPHESIANS 6:18)
So, parents, friends, keep praying, keep trusting, keep hoping. Daniel’s God surely still delivers. The name of Jesus still saves. The spirit of confusion, deception, sexual immorality, and even the spirit of homosexuality still fall at the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Stay on the battlefield; keep advocating for God’s divine order to be restored.
…That morning, on my way to work, I noticed a rainbow. Faint, yet undeniable. It was a reminder of God’s sometimes still, small, yet discernible voice. It reminded me that His order still remains, and if I have been delivered, if I have been redeemed, God can do the same for all in need of His grace.
