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Rain Makes For A Garden

As I drove in to work Tuesday, the sky was overcast, the rain spilled out over my windshield and the sun was nowhere to be found. But, somehow, my heart was filled with a quiet joy. Maybe it was because it wasn’t snowing, or because it was warm enough for one coat to suffice – I’m not sure.

Normally, the rain makes me feel a little downtrodden for some reason, especially if it’s a dreary rain. When the sky is dark and water drips from the sky, it dampens my spirits a little bit. Yet, today, my spirit was having none of it. “Today, we’re going to be happy,” my spirit said.

I put music on the radio, and “How Great Is Our God?” by Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves and Ed Cash came on, and it seemed strikingly appropriate. Even in the midst of a dreary day, the Lord makes all things beautiful. In the midst of clouds and turmoil, we can still choose to see the glory of the Lord.

It can be hard to do — looking at the bright side isn’t easy when you feel surrounded by darkness. A rainy day often doesn’t compare to the deep, scary darkness we sometimes find ourselves in. Maybe we’re feeling sorrow at a loss we’ve had, we’re going through a stressful time period or we feel lonely and unloved. However, we must remember that we are never alone, we are never unloved and the circumstances of our life will come and go, but God is good all the time.

In Deuteronomy 31:8,  it says, “It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you nor forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

Paul repeats this in Hebrews 13:5 where he writes, “Keep your life free from love of money and be content with what you have for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

We are not a forsaken people — we are the Body of Christ, his Church and we are together in Christ. Paul points this out in 1 Corinthians 12:12. “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — Jews or Greeks, slave or free — and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.”

So my friends, remember, though you may feel alone, scared or as if you have gotten yourself into something “too deep,” you are not alone, you are not unloved and this situation is only temporary. God is unfailing, and he is our Rock. He never wavers and never forgets us.

Instead of being dismayed at the rain, let us think of it as God watering the flowers he’s planted in your empty places. He has planted the seed of His Word in your heart, in your mind and in your soul that you may produce much fruit — but you have to grow to get there.

As we all grow in our walk, let’s all stick together as one in Christ, let the rain pour down and find the light in between the drops.

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