September 11, 2015

“The Lord is slow to anger but great in power;
the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.
His way is in the whirlwind and the storm,
and clouds are the dust of his feet.” Nahum 1:3

“In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. “The clouds are the dust of His feet” (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clear-shining brightness.” Do You See Jesus In Your Clouds? July 29, 2015 My Utmost For His Highest

“I can see clearly now the rain is gone….” so goes the song by Johnny Nash. The idea is true for seeing after the mist and the clouds of rain showers have left. The same should be true for our lives as the clouds of bad days, trials, tribulations and losses teach us how to see our lives and our relationship with G*d more clearly. As the saying goes, without trouble, there would be little faith. When all is good, when life is happy and without a care in the world, it is not that long before we delude ourselves to believe that we can handle this world on our own. What reason or reasons do we find a need for G*d if nothing ever goes wrong in our lives? But how ridiculous this sounds from the beginning, because none of us ever lives a life where nothing ever goes wrong. Just being alive means we will have bad days and good days and mediocre days.

Whether it is pouring down rain, or the clouds are just gathering, or the clouds are finally lifting, isn’t it comforting to think that the presence of clouds means that G*d is present? G*d cannot come near us without clouds — and that makes us thank G*d for cloudy days.

Pastor Dave