I love to watch the weather forecast on televison. It's a habit I got years ago when I worked on railroad tracks for a living. Working outside, on those tracks, we always needed to know how the weather was going to be to plan the jobs from day to day. One of my main jobs was to make the plans so I'd tune in at night before bed and in the morning before work. I needed to know if it was going to be sunny or if it was going to be cloudy with a chance of rain.
In our natural lives rain is sometimes given a bad rap. Because of rain some people can't work. Rainy conditions have been blamed for many an accident and deaths.Rain can even make some people depressed.
Now in the biblical sense, the lack of rain was seen as God's judgement upon the land and the people.1Kings 17:1 talks about when the prophet Elijah passed on God's words concerning Ahab the then king of Israel.Ahab was the king that married Jezebel and she turned him and the people away from God. So the words from God was No Rain! Another way to look at it was God took away the clouds! Without clouds, there can be no rain. Without rain, streams and rivers dry up. Without rain, plants die, animals die, we die! Without clouds we miss our chance to be blessed.
There have been times in my life when everything seemed to be under a cloud. It seemed like every where I went the clouds followed me. Heavy dark clouds wieghting on my personal life, my spiriual life. Dark clouds seemed to be every where and I just couldn't find any daylight to run to.Do anyone out there know what I'm talking about? There maybe someone going through this season right now, looking to escape those clouds, but there seems to be no way out.Maybe it's time for us to not focus on the clouds, but what's inside them!! I have a "spiritual forecast" for you today:"It's mostly cloudy with a chance of blessings!!" Those same clouds that are hanging over you are the same clouds God can use to bless you. Just like in the natural world, the darker the cloud, the more rain it produces. In the spirit world the same thing goes too, the darker the clouds in our lives, the more blessings there are inside them.
Verse 45 of todays passage reads as follows:" And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel."(kjv) If God was willing to pour out a blessing for an evil person like Ahab, surely He is willing pour one out for you.
Get your umbrella ready because the forecast is:"Mostly cloudy with a chance of BLESSINGS!!!"
"Father, help us look at the clouds in our lives as a chance for you to bless us. We know there was clouds as your Son hung on the cross and oh what a blesssing came from that! We pray in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen"
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