Rain

It is never fun to wake up on a Monday morning, after our only week of summer weather so far, to clouds and rain.  You see, it rains a fair bit throughout  the year here in the great Northwest, so we take our summers and sunshine very seriously.

Filled with a little disappointment, I put on jeans, a shirt and shoes, took to the wet roads and headed into Seattle for work.  I was reminiscing on the 90 degree weather we had experienced last week as I was driving and then it dawned on me.  There is a passage in Matthew 6:25-34  that is basically been my life passage; it says:

²⁵"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? ²⁸"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' ³²For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

I looked around and I noticed the grass and leaves around me – I am sure they were very glad to have the rain come this morning after enduring the record weather we had last week.  I was reminded of this passage and how the rain is God’s way of taking care of the grass of the fields and how He is even more faithful to me.  I may be going through some tough times in areas of life but God remains true and I have to keep my eyes on Him and trust Him.  So, thank you Jesus for gentle reminders like these.