Storm Clouds Are Coming!
Sitting on the porch watching some of the biggest, meanest looking dark clouds roll in. The wind is blowing and there is thunder and lightening.
You know what am doing? I am rejoicing, giving thanks to the Lord for the rain, the cool breeze and the release from the heat of the last few days as the Lord gives us a spectacular show, complete with sound effects!
What comes to mind right now as I am sitting here is the fact that the Lord is my shelter, my strong tower, my strength and my defence even in the midst of the storm.
How we react is what makes the difference in our walk with the Lord. Each day we have to make choices and decisions that effect us and those around us. We can choose to walk around with a woe is me, no one cares, why even bother attitude or we can walk in faith knowing that the Lord is in charge and well aware and He will speak to us. Through His word, through a friend. There are so many ways He will answer if we simply look to Him with a heart of faith. No, it isn’t easy, but then it wouldn’t be faith, would it?
So how are we going to react to the storms that are a coming? Are we going to see them as that which fine tunes us, sharpens us and makes us press in even more to the Lord or are we going to let it defeat us and bring us down?
As for me I choose to press on in, to allow the effects of the storm to work in my life, to remove all that is not of the Lord and that a freshness and a cleansing comes forth and knowing that I can continue to press on even more and that the Lord will continue to mold and shape me into an instrument to be used in His hands.
Each day is a new day, a new choice, an opportunity to grow in the things of the Lord. It is a time of learning to come into His presence, of meditating in His word and letting it become real within and applying it to our every day life. Realizing that we really can walk in the Lord here and now.
Today is the Day that the Lord has made! The choice is yours!
Till later,
Paul