Reminders in the Rain
It's definitely spring around these parts, as rain is falling multiple days a week. Along with the rain comes wind, thunder, and a certain sense of uneasiness as you never know what a storm will bring. To me there's always something soothing about a gentle rain, a reminder of forces at work in the Earth that we cannot see.
The rains always remind me that we cannot predict God‘s goodness to us. We might have a pretty good idea, especially now with our advanced technology, of when the rain will come. But there’s still so much uncertainty about exactly where and how much rain will fall. In the same way we might generally think that if we live or act a certain way that God will be good to us.
But there are times in our life that God‘s rain falls on us, at times in ways we never saw coming. His goodness and mercy comes to us, even when we don’t deserve it. The Bible promises that the rain falls on the just and the unjust. God continually gives us gifts that we do not deserve, graces that we have not earned, blessings that should not belong to us. God’s rain is just one of those mercies. God's rain is part of his plan for sustaining and upholding the world as it is.
But just as He does, just in His right time, God gives us what we need. He always does, and He always will.
