Thursday Devotional - God Is With Us In the Rain

A couple of weeks ago my Mom, kids and I were walking in our neighborhood. It sprinkled and then stopped. We thought about calling my Dad to pick us up, but we figured we had time to finish our loop before more rain came. Then, it poured! We got drenched!!! We wished we had called Dad. Everyone wanted a warm shower once we got home!

What if we had been stuck in the rain indefinitely? I can’t imagine! However, that’s how it is for those who don’t take God and His Word seriously. They don’t have any hope through the storms of life. They also have no one with whom they can truly depend or call.

Matthew 7:24-29          ²⁴ “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. ²⁵ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. ²⁶ But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

²⁸ When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, ²⁹ because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.

God is available to be with us before, during and after the storms of life. He has also generously given us His Word full of life’s instructions and promises. What Scriptures are you clinging to right now as you go through some “rain?”

Alice