INTO EACH LIFE

This picture was obviously taken prior to The Flood. So how do I know? Until that time water came from streams under the ground. It took a patient God's wrath to cause it to rain. Maybe that's why I never liked rain, although right now in AZ, we wait for the monsoons to begin. People are watching the dew point as closely as the Dow Jones. When the magical number hits 55, then we have a shot at precipitaion.

But God knew in His infinite and eternal wisdom that watering from the ground up was better. End of year school picnics wouldn't be ruined. Hair and clothes, too. Unless you wallered, as they used to say in Southern Illinois.

Umbrella salesmen might suffer, but I'm certain they could make a living bringing back galoshes. I can see them now in a variety of colors. Trendy, make a statement, support a cause kind of galoshes made to be fashionable. Or get into the car wash business. With no rain, there'd be a lot more dirty cars on our streets.

But there's no more speculating. If God wants us to have rain, He has a reason. And we are to accept and be thankful for all things. Remember when Job's wife couldn't understand his faithfulness to God after all his hardships? She told him to curse God and die. Job's reply, "Should I accept only the good things I receive from the Lord?" Yes, as hard as it is at the time, we are never to stop praising God for all the things, including tribulations that He sends into our lives. He may be trying to discipline us; He maybe trying to get our attention.

However much we suffer, no one suffered more, and no one suffered more unjustly than Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.