“I hear the sound of revival l rain – I hear the sound – I hear the sound” (Leeland Rain).
I sit here listening to the thunder roll, the rain pour, and the wind whipping around the side of the house and am “unmoved” to be concerned about it. After days on end of rain in August 2016, I had the same feeling as on a Sunday morning, I sat in the quiet of the “still dark” hour listening to the rain pour down outside my window. The rumors of “flood” had begun days earlier, but we had never so much as had water in the yard in the past 100 years and we pretty much live on an island.
Again today, the sound of rain pours in the natural, as it pours in every other realm around us, the storm has come, the people of God and of the earth are shaken, uncomfortable, many even fearful causing them to cry out to God to “stop the rain”, to “keep their house from flooding” in a very different way than 2016. Today it is “keep the virus away from my family, my community”, it is “open the economy again, so I can get out of this house”, it is “How do I care for my family since my job site shut down” and a whole lot of other storm-related questions.
But what is true in 2016 in the natural rains, is true today in this storm; God is still the God of the storm. Psalm 18:9-11 spoke loudly that early morning and it still speaks today: “He opened the heavens ad came down, dark storm clouds beneath His feet…..He soared on the wings of the wind and shrouded Himself in darkness, veiling His approach with dark rain clouds”.
If He came down in the brightness of His coming we could not bear it so He chooses to “show up” shrouded in darkness. What does that mean? Look around, what do you see? Darkness! Sin raging, political confusion, leaders grasping at straws to lead and people “at the mercy of their decisions”. To have church, to not have church, to go out without a mask, or not at all; To pay bills or feed the family…storms of a different kind. But underneath all the darkness we see, the Lord has come down and He is moving under its cloak disguised to the world who does not know Him, but very evident to those who do. As Christians it is our responsibility to stop looking at the storm, and look for the Lord covered in its darkness. If we are intent on that one thing, this storm will look very different, and playing in the wind and rain seems like a good idea!!
Renee Hymel
Lover of God’s Word | Prayer Warrior | Blogger #myGodisYahweh
Fav Scripture: Eph 6:10-11
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the enemy’s schemes”.
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