It Has to Rain

I enjoy nature and the beauty of the things that I see....From 2008

It Has to Rain

I went running on the bayou this morning and God spoke to me in the most beautiful way. This is honestly a continuation of a writing that I am doing entitled "God is trying to get you in shape" but I had to post this one first. This morning I decided to take a different route than the one I had taken yesterday, again I was on a familiar road but an unfamiliar trail. Often in life we begin to get too comfortable with people and things and are afraid to take that unfamiliar road. In my previous writing I state that once God gets you in shape there is no trail or task too hard or unfamiliar because when you're running with Him, He already knows the end, so the unknown becomes unimportant. Anyway since I decided to take this unfamiliar trail I began to run, and I continued to run until the trail I thought I had mapped out for myself eventually ended. I had two choices turn around and go back or continue down a street that I had never before been down to get back to where I needed to be. I decided to run down the foreign street. Like I said in may writing yesterday, once you start running with God and do it consistently the trial gets easier, you can run a bit longer and you know He knows where it ends, so I just kept running. I had my headphones on listening to my gospel mix, I took some food with me today! (I gotta post the other half of this so that you all will understand lol) And I ran. As I was running it was cloudy as if it was going to rain, but I didn't turn around I kept running. Eventually I got to the point where I decided to stop and walk the rest of the way home, I guess as a way of letting all that God had said to me while I was running sink in. I realized that before I began my run my legs were sore. Sometimes it is a little uncomfortable when we begin our runs with God, but my the end the pain is almost non-existent. I realized today that I had run double if not triple what I ran the day before, and I was excited. Then something began to happen. It began to drizzle. Now I wasn't but about a quarter mile from my house, I could even see the entrance gate, but it began to drizzle. I could have begin running again, but the Lord said just "walk through it" So I did after awhile it began to rain a little harder the drizzle began to hit the ground with even more force, yet and still the Lord said walk through it. I passed the first entrance gate to my apartment and by now it began to thunder and the rain began to beat down on my back everything in me said 'run' but God said it's ok walk through it, by the time I walked through the gate to my apartment it was raining so hard that I could barely see, and that's when God spoke to me clearest, it's almost if He just screamed at me "Sometimes it has to rain, and the rain is going to get harder the closer you get to your destination, but just walk through it." Not only was that a word for me the song on my IPOD at that particular time was "Perfect Peace" Isn't God good? I had to stop for a moment and thank God for that word. I stood under the carport for a minute and just gave Him praise, and then I had to go get my purse out of my trunk that was not under a carport, I had to go back into the rain, but it was not for long. I finally got to my door and as I was walking to my door the maintenance worker that was cleaning the pool was running for shelter by my stairwell, I just smiled. We've gotta realize that it has to rain. We have to stop running through it and let it fall fresh on us. Let it cleanse us. Just like it quenches the thirsting Earth it can cleanse our soul. It has to rain. If it didn't rain we wouldn't have the opportunity to be refreshed. We wouldn't have the opportunity to experience being in a place that only God can speak to us. When it's raining in your life, do you seek His face or run for cover? Do you know when the rain begins to pour it only means that you are getting closer to your destination? And guess what I've only been inside for about ten minutes now, and it's no longer raining, but the sun is shining as if the rain never came. Your rain won't last forever. Whether it be relationships, finances, friends, situations you can't seem to let go of, they won't last forever. Just like the rain cleanses the Earth, God will renew and refresh your spirit. It has to rain. Love M