we’ve been getting a lot of rain lately. it’s WET! for the first time in years there are puddles in the fields! many people are complaining about the incessant rain that keeps them out of the garden, out of the fields, that hides the sun. but, once again, the sky is darkening and the rain is threatening and i feel my soul lift in expectation. my anthem lately seems to be
"LET IT RAIN, OPEN THE FLOODGATES OF HEAVEN, LET IT RAIN!" and yesterday when we listened to that song at uncle jon’s, i felt God speak to me. we had just been praying for the people who were flooded out in maple creek and southern a
lberta and talking about the devastation that had occurred there and i felt God asking me...”do you REALLY want my floodgates to open? do you REALLY want my rain? do you REALLY want all of me?” i replied quickly, ‘of course’ and then i started thinking about it – when the floodgates open, when it REALLY rains, there is what probably looks like devastation...in truth, when God moves in a big way, it most likely doesn’t look orderly and calm and i think it might look a bit devastating. i pondered that for a moment and then replied back to God, “you know what i can handle, you are faithful, and YES, i want You, i want to see your floodgates opened. LET IT RAIN, LORD!” i didn't feel God speak again but the words of the next song said "if He put that cry inside of your heart, He will answer the cry inside of your heart" and so
i'm believing for overflow, for increase, for the floodgates of heaven to open wide, and for it to RAIN.
I've been thinking about that a lot the last while too. Last year, I was making fun of my roommate from the coast of BC who was complaining about the constant sunshine. Now, I feel bad for the people who are being hurt by all the rain, but on days when the sun shines I feel odd, like something's not quite right, and when the clouds come, I start getting excited inside. This may be "lots," but still it's not nearly enough.
ReplyDeleteI think, too, about a province and it's people that has developed it's lifestyle (agricultural practices) and infrastructure (Hwy 1) around never having enough. We depend on never having enough, to survive. We are established and uncomfortably comfortable in never having enough. Being dry sucks, but we know how to deal with it. (Thunder! Rain begins to fall.) Things are going to have to be broken in our world of never having enough in order to fit the abundance that should be our normal. (Downpour!!)