...NOT to the dry earth...NOT to the dying plants...NOT to de man who makes de ponchos!! But weathermen don't lie (??...grin) and when he forecast rain the other day, he wasn't kidding. It started on a small scale, then began pouring buckets as I headed from the north end to the far south end of our city. I was on my way to do a "kind deed" - to take a senior citizen friend to breakfast--and I didn't need RAIN to pour all over this poor lady, recently recovered from a stroke, so she might now catch pneumonia!
As the windshield wipers did their thing, I did mine--I prayed! "Lord, let the rain stop!" It kept on raining, I kept on driving--and suddenly, as I neared the retirement facility, the rain stopped. IT JUST STOPPED! I almost felt like the prophet Elijah when he prayed and God stopped the SUN! It was wonderful--I had prayed--but I couldn't believe it--God really answered!
Now, of course, I know God answers prayer--but for something so insignificant, so almost silly? YES, a thousand time YES! God hears and knows our needs - and when the rain falls, sometimes it gets worse before it gets better--but it stops! Ask Noah! And next time the rain is falling on YOUR parade, remember--we'd never appreciate the sunshine if we didn't have the rain.
SO if "the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain" and it's YOUR plain, whether you're a plant, a poncho-maker or a private person, remember, God has a plan--and in HIS time, the sun (SON!) will shine again. His love never fails. The rain's a pain, but that's OK--He sends it to help us all grow--and He can stop it in His time! Believe it and have a great day "in the rain and on the plain" wherever on Planet Earth you live!
Delight in a Word from the Well--a refreshing in the Water of His Word
"...he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust (Matthew 5:45)."
Draw from the Well--a prayer for renewing strength for this day
"Lord, it's raining in my world today--dark, dreary rainy weather I don't need--or do I? Lord, I know it is in the rain that I grow the most--so help me learn the lesson of the rain--that there's gain in the pain--and YOU will stop the stormy showers in Your own good time and way. I can trust You in every season of my life--help me to do that this day, In Jesus' Name, Amen."
All Scriptures are taken from the King James Version of the Holy Bible.
Copyright 2000 by Peggie Bohanon, Springfield, MO. All rights reserved.
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