Could there be any more rain in Texas?
I feel like all we've done this summer is drown in wave after wave of pouring rain.
First, it was just a little rain. And then we got this whole Tropical Storm Bill thing going on. I'm so sick of rain, I can't stand it anymore. The sky changes in an instant from blue and gorgeous with fluffy, cotton ball clouds, to entirely dismal and grey, dumping tons of water all over creation.
Poor Noah. If we're sick of rain, can you imagine forty days and forty nights of it? Enough to flood the entire world? I wouldn't have done well on his ark.
But every time I think there's no end to the rain in sight, I manage to see a rainbow. Like God is promising me, it's going to stop eventually. He always keeps his promises, and I guess that's what's keeping me sane in this downpour. Noah had enough faith to build an ark. He had enough faith to trust God when he said it was going to rain enough to cover the entire earth. All of Noah's neighbors thought he was crazy to do what he was doing and to listen to God. But he never slowed down. He did as God lead him, no matter how crazy it sounded.
In the wake of all this rain, and thinking of Noah, I'm reminded of what my own Christian walk should look like. If God leads me somewhere, or to do something, I should go, no questions asked. Even if my family, or my friends, or my neighbors, call me crazy and think I've lost my mind. God knows what's going on. He knows the future and the past and the present, and he wants the best for us. So even when things seem crazy, even when we have those moments where we're asking "God, how is this even going to work?" we should do as he asks.
So as I listen to the thunder, and watch rain coat my window, and hear my dog's nails clack as he paces the floor outside my room, I want to encourage all of you to think like Noah. To be faithful, no matter the circumstance, to trust God even when our human minds can't comprehend the process.
Proverbs 3:5-6 tell us "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thineown understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
We may not always understand what's happening, or what we feel He's leading us to, but if we trust him and put our faith in him, he will lead us.
