Today it rained. I wish that I could tell you all that ran through my mind as I thought about the rain and watched it pour down. I am sorry that I cannot rightly give words, hardly am I ever able to.
When a peoples land is in drought, danger of lack of water can become severe. The time of dryness becomes a fearful one, with uncertainty of when the rain will come again. When it does, the sound, the feel, the taste, the sight of long awaited water dropping from the heavens is sweet renewal in the burdened man waiting for harvest and in the parched roots of the ground waiting for sustenance.
Can you picture our souls.
Just today, I read of a prisoner who is chained for the sake of his faith. I read of his prosperous attitude in the midst of suffering through the knowledge that God's word is not chained and His work is infinitely prospered. This believer has received a flood of grace in rain of affliction.
It is with heaviness that I say, many do not notice the drought of their own heart. It is disgusting to me to find myself in this jejune behavior that I often face. I do not like it, at all. It brings me fallen in His presence for it is not I that can change the apathetic fatigue of my heart towards Christ, only God, Himself can bring about truth of the necessity of His gospel and means of loving it deeper. This is the rain. Rain to our souls to deepen our affections for Him who is eternally good. Because He is good and sovereign over all of time and creation, He sufficiently knows what is our good. That is why drought occurs and why rain overwhelms it. Unable to recognize our souls as parched, or even oblivious to it, we become fearfully stunned when the rain begins to pound against our heart. As the water soaks into the roots of our soul, we become aware of the fresh deliverance it brings. We can rejoice in the rain of affliction because we know it is producing a harvest in our heart of more intimate and greater love towards the One whose hand governs each drop. Yes, believer, we can rejoice! It is all for the glory of God, our Father.
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