The rain and a reminder

This morning on the way to work I was rushing, as I always do because it seems I am always running slightly behind. I blame it on my late arrival into this world, and because of that I have been running late since. Seems legit!

Anyway on my way into work it was kind of rainy looking and cloudy, just a yucky kind of day all the way around. I sighed as I pulled out of the garage and headed down the road. More rain and I am over the rain.

I turned the radio up as my first song in my play list started playing. A song that always seems to get hit me right in the feels. 
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Anyway, on my way to work this morning singing my heart out, Jesus softly reminded me of something I was losing sight of. 

No matter what the sun will never be over come by the darkness, by the rain. Even when the sun is hidden from us, it is still there. No matter how many days it rains, and the clouds hang around. I forget that just because I don't see the sun doesn't mean it's not there. 
I pulled up to a stop sign and just had to sit there for a few minutes and cry and say "Thank you". I couldn't sit there forever so after a bit I wiped the tears out of my eyes and took off down the road. 

As this song played and I drove into town, I just felt like Jesus was reminding me that just because days go by or weeks and I feel so alone in a world full of people, and like the storms are just to much, He is always there. I forget that no matter how hard the darkness tries it will never over come Him. It feels like it will over come me though. The enemy does a great job at making me believe my worth is found in the world and that I can be over come by the darkness. Sometimes it takes a tiny ray of THE SON shining though to remind me that He is always there. 

I have found that when I pray for change, or to be better, or to make me stronger, or to give me a heart to love like He loves and I forget that there is beauty in the breaking. I pray for rain, and when it rains I run back to the dry, warm comforts of life. What I need to do is stand in the rain and thank God for the storms that change me, for the breaking of my heart. Let the rain wash away all the things that life is trying to drag me down with. I need to thank Him for teaching me to love like He loves. For breaking away of all the crap and reminding me who's I really am. 

I am reminded of a verse, Hosea 6:3 "Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning: He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth."
We want God to change and move in our lives but when He moves and changes we cry out to make it stop, or ask why is this storm coming at me God? When we should be standing arms spread wide, face up to the Father welcoming the change, saying "Here I am God, send me", God let it rain. What ever it takes to bring you Glory. Not my comfort, or happiness, but your Glory.  

I wish I was better at remembering this sooner. I wish I didn't cry out Why me, and I wish I said Thank you Lord more often. Prayerfully I will show my gratitude sooner next time.   

It was a beautiful moment sitting at the stop sign, looking up at that one little break in the cloud watching the sun pour through. As the morning went on the clouds moved on, but I am so thankful for that gentle reminder this morning. 
I am so thankful for His love for me, that He sent that right at that moment for me. I am thankful for change He has worked in me and is still working in me. 

I pray your Saturday was full of smiles and reminders that you are loved as well. Keep prying for rain, keep praying for God to move and when He moves and the rains of change start pouring down I pray you lift up shouts of gratitude and thanksgiving for the change that happening in your life. I know for me I am going to try to remember to do just that next time.