When it Rains

I am sitting right now in my chair watching it rain really hard as a summer storm passes through. Watching the rain has me thinking of the phrase most of us should know, "when it rains, it pours". When we use this line, most times we are not referring to the actual rain outside, but the negative circumstances that have arisen in our life. And we use this line when it seems to us, that it is one bad circumstance after another, piling up in our lives, to the point that we feel we can no longer handle our life with all the suffering that is taken place.

The sad reality is that every time we really use this line we are just missing the point, not understand what is happening, or are so lost we no longer realize what good is anymore. "When it rains, it pours", is actually a great analogy for God's grace and blessing in our lives. See, God is more gracious than we could ever imagine or every see. This next sentence as I write it, is an act of grace from God. The fact you are reading this is a grace from God. The next breath we take is an act of grace from God. Not being more sinful than we really are, is an act of grace from God (more on this tomorrow). The next step, hug, kiss, smile, or grey hair is an act of grace and a blessing from God. If God was not gracious to us, we would all be in hell right now receiving the just punishment for the sin we commit. But we are not, even those who do not believe, in this way experience the grace of God. So when God is giving us grace it is really like a rain storm pouring on us.

Now, let me ask this. Do we have a house? Do we have our health? Do we have children? Do we have friends? Do we have a job? Do we have hobbies we enjoy or sports teams we like? These are all blessings from God. Even the loud rain storm right now is a blessing from God. So not only is God's grace like a rain storm on us, so is His blessings to us.

But the problem is that one single broken moment or pain, consumes our focus and we feel like life is pouring on us. I guarantee if we take our eye off the pain or suffering in life and see the grace and blessing from God, we will see the true downpour of life. In truth the suffering is a drop compared to the downpour of God's grace and blessing to us. So next time you hear some one say, "when it rains, it pours", you should ask them to explain all of God's grace and blessing they see.