RAIN

I have to blog about the rain today because it’s the first time in literally weeks that we’ve seen any around our area of the country. It comes as a welcome relief, albeit brief and light.

We used to sing a song by Andy Park that said: ‘Let it rain ... let it pour from heaven ... let it rain ... to revive our souls ... we need your rain ... we need your streams of refreshing ... until we thirst no more.’

We need the rain for both our fields and our spirits.  The fields are completely in the hands of God.  We have a little say about the rain that feeds our spirits.  We can’t control the droughts that blight our planet; we can prevent drought from laying siege to our spirits.

We can acknowledge how dependent we are on a God who sends the showers of relief to us - and be thankful.

We can pray like Elijah, until the rain comes down.

We can - as Spurgeon put it - ‘value the least sign of grace’ - watching for it as the prophet did, until we see the small cloud on the horizon coming our way.

And when the rain comes to water our souls, we can bring the fruit back to God, where it belongs.

Let your spirit be drenched.

PS - Please be encouraged to take the poll at right, based on an earlier blog post this week.


And be blessed.