Rain Date

Where I live, we believe that “April showers bring May flowers.”  I think the hope of the beauty that arrives in May helps us cope with the dark, rainy days in April.

However, our hopes seem to have been shattered this year as April showers turned into May showers, which turned into June showers. Here we are almost in July and its still raining! Not surprisingly, I’ve heard several talks of a new Ark being built.

All this rain from the start of Spring to the start of Summer is pretty unusual and I do not believe in coincidences. So I found myself asking “Lord, what is the meaning of this? What are you saying with all this rain?” I waited for His response. I began thinking about how many plans have probably been changed or canceled throughout this region during the past couple of months because of the unexpected rain. A few events I was scheduled to attend needed a rain date for the rain date!

So what do you do when God steps in and completely “changes the plan?” Is He really changing the plan? Perhaps what we were anticipating was never part of the plan at all. We may be looking for flowers when God has a bigger harvest in mind.

Take some time to find out what God is saying to you about this season of rain. If you are experiencing unexpected delays due to a stormy season in your life, ask the Lord for your rain date. He will tell you whether it is time to move forward or be still. He will reveal the next steps, in His timing. Trust that His plan is still better than yours!

Proverbs 19:21 (New International Version)

Many are the plans in a man’s heart,
but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.