I remember when I was a little girl I would love when it rained because I could dance in it. I would imagine that I was a famous movie star and I would dance around and raise my hands and sing my little heart out. It never stopped me from having so much fun, well not until that first crack of thunder and then I had to run in the house. There my mother would be waiting to warm me up with a nice big clean towel. Ahhhh those were the days.
As I've gotten older the thought of rain doesn't appeal to me as it did before. I look at the forecast and there are not many suns showing on my app. But as I sit here watching the small raindrops falling down my window I'm ashamed at myself for being so disappointed in the weather. I remind myself that there is nothing that happens without the word of God speaking it into existence. I love when the sun is out and I can be out in it. But shouldn't I be just as thankful for the rain?
Isaiah 55:10-13
New International Version (NIV)
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”
That scripture says so much! I may be 34 but my soul will continue to dance when it rains because I know that by the rains falling to the earth, God is giving us all good things and food to eat, life to the trees that we need oxygen from, rivers that we can swim in when the sun does finally come out. I will choose to take rainy days and reflect on God's goodness and remind myself that everyday is a day that the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be oh so glad in it! And maybe just maybe one of these days I'll even dance in the rain one more time.....
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