As I sit and listen to the rain hammering down upon the earth and see the effects of it on the surroundings, I cannot help but think about trials. Like rain, some trials are but mist, some are light, medium, hard...others are flooding and devastating. I have had my share of most of these types. When it rains for a week straight we wonder, when will it stop? But for some, it rains and rains and rains, with no end in sight. It always stops eventually.
Rain is nurturing to the earth as trials are nurturing to our characters. When the rains stop and the sun starts to shine, the effects of the long rain is present in the budding flowers and green pastures. We can go outside and reap the benefits of what the storms have done or stay inside and hide under our blankets for fear that the rain will start again. In our trials, we are not left without shelter, we are never left alone to drown in the floods. If you are built upon the Lord Jesus Christ, then the rains can pour down, the winds can howl and beat upon you but they will never claim you, for you are are hidden beneath a shield of protection that cannot be broken.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."
How many times I have seen this verse come into fulfillment....countless times.
So as the rains pour down upon you, sit tight under the Lord's hand and listen to what he is telling you. He will be glorified through our trials, we will be refined and made more like Him, and we will help others who are trying to brave the storms alone.
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