Its raining today

It's raining today. Just like yesterday and the day before and the day before and the day before. In some ways it's symbolic of the way that we Christians are called to live. The Bible puts it this way. "We live in the world, but we are not of the world". All around us the brokenness of the world is raining. Sometimes it's just a sprinkle. Sometimes a downpour, but it never stops. Most of us, when we first came to Christ thought that our decision would stop the rain. For a while, for most of us, were focused, and rightly so, upon the sunshine of our new salvation. As the years pass, however, it becomes more and more obvious that we were living in a raging battlefield and that our job is to enforce the victory won by Christ, while saving as many as possible from the brokenness of this world in the process. Our task is to bring as many as we can to the divine hope of grace, while also dealing with the rain in our own lives.

Hope is not the absence of problems. Hope is not a giddy unrealistic, self-imposed blindness. Hope is believing that no matter how bad it seems to be or how bad it might become, Jesus has won the battle for us. So, when it's raining hard, and I feel drenched to the core of my soul, I turn my face toward the Son and say: "oh look, It’s raining today''.