Rain, Rain, Come my Way

As the rain gently falls on my garden I am reminded we have choices to make everyday. As with the rain, we can view it as life giving nutrition to our plants so we have food to feed our families or we can see it as something ruining our plans for the day, a nuisance. Scripture says the rain will fall on the just and the unjust alike…I see that as the same opportunities for everyone. We can choose to look for the positive, the blessings, and the favor of God that pours out in our lives…OR…we can look at every circumstance and see only the negative…what we can’t do, can’t buy, can’t accomplish.

Using the rain again, I see it as refreshing and replenishing life here on earth. I know people that see it as gloomy, depressing and the cause of disappointments. That is so sad to me! The same rain is falling on each of us, yet our perspectives determine how we feel about it.

Those that live in lands where drought is common probably cannot understand a negative attitude about rain anymore than those of us that have lived without Christ can understand why everyone would not choose to live with Him. To know life without His mercy and then have personal knowledge of Him and His mercy is as much a contrast as barren drought plagued lands before a season of life giving rain. One brings death, the other brings life.

My heart is heavy when I see the suffering of people in the sun scorched lands where loved ones die at alarming rates and new born infants wither in their mother’s arms. Believers, there are people dying all day every day everywhere you look without anyone taking the time to share Jesus and His life-giving love with them. Life in a drought stricken land is painful, hard and brings certain death. Life lived without Christ promises a painful, hard and certain death where the suffering lasts for all eternity.

My challenge to you this rainy day is that we take the time to see the rain as life giving and a reminder that people dying all around us living drought-like lives without Christ. May the rain serve to prompt us to share Christ with those around us. May the life-giving Living Waters of Jesus rain down everywhere we go on everyone we see. May we be a part of the solution to people living barren lives and not a part of the problem by being passive. Rain falls; it is life in action. May we be life-sharers in action.