Weather Report From Heaven: Sunny and bright, with an abundance of light and lots of singing and rejoicing.
Scripture – “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”- Isaiah 55:10-11
Insight: There are many promises in the Bible that I cling to when relying on the Lord to help me through life’s rough patches, and to be honest, my life is filled with many rough patches right now. The scripture above is so important to me because it promises that the word of God never returns empty and always accomplishes the purpose for which it was sent. That makes it very personal to me. In other words, I can speak scripture into the many challenges I’m facing right now, knowing the word of God is alive and active, (Hebrews 4:12) and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that He will provide the victory and help me overcome them. Some of the challenges right now require patience (Isaiah 40:31), some wisdom(James 1:5), some strength (Isaiah 40:29), and others acknowledging that I am in way over my head and that without His intervention, I am not going to see victory. (Psalm 18:6)
Life can get serious fast and catch us off-guard and make us realize how much we need God each and every moment. The last 5 months have been a roller coaster of emotions that are a total contrast to the previous few years where things had been relatively calm and seemingly stable. Some of the struggles have literally brought me to my knees. My mom, as an 83 year old single woman, falling and hitting her head and requiring multiple hospital stays and ever changing diagnoses, while living 2 hours drive away from us, has led to a feeling of helplessness on many occasions. Is she going to live? Where will the help come from after she leaves the hospital? How do we pay for all this? Is she best at a nursing home or moving in with us? This day to day stress is impossible to manage without the promises of God’s sufficiency being enough to help us get through each day. I have never felt so woefully inadequate as this has made me feel, in trying to make a myriad of difficult decisions about my mom’s health and future. Throw on top of all this a global pandemic and the fears that brings and how it’s affecting my two young teenagers emotionally, uncertainty on some many schooling issues we have always taken for granted, losing my job in March and searching for my next career path, and a few other things and you can see that it can feel overwhelming at times if we don’t keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. That’s why a great promise such as God’s word does not return empty can keep us going through such difficult trails. We can rely on Him to Shepherd us through deep valleys and be able to say with confidence that “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall fear no evil. The Lord is my Shepherd,I lack nothing!”(Psalm 23:4, Psalm 23:1)
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