The "Weathered" Life

Wow! Where has summer gone?  This is August already?  Really?  This is sort of the way life is....fleeting through....sometimes sunshine, sometimes rain and occasionally a cloud or just a spotty shower.  

Have you ever thought about that is the way life and our walk with Christ is? Sometime, we feel really close to Him and we have peace and joy and sunshine in our souls.  But, then, sometime...we feel He is so far away and the rain (tears come) and we wonder where He is....Then, on occasion, we know we should not do something and oops, we mess up and we know it....and we have a cloud or spotty shower. 

Why are we like the seasons?  I don't want to 'fleet' through my life like the weather map and have storms and hurricanes.  I had rather have the lazy, hazy days of life.  
Really, we cannot control the weather, but we can have a little control of life.  
If we set our site on Christ, live the abundant life He wants us to have, it will be like having an umbrella over our head for those spotty showers.  He is always there for us, even when we mess up, He is quick to forgive if we ask.  

How can we be prepared for life itself?  
Easy....listen to the weather forecast He has written for your life.  Everyday life is as different as it is with weather.  
Watch out for the clouds, look for the sunshine in everything.  Is there someone placed in your life for you to share His love with today?  Let them borrow your umbrella?  

Tomorrow, when you get up, think of your weather map for the day.  What does God have in store for you and see how you need to be prepared.  Get ready, it may just be the most Sonshine that you have had in awhile!!   
I would love to hear from you and you to share with me about your days ahead.  You can contact me at gingersanders.com or you may comment here on my blog.

Jeremiah 14:22 "Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things."

Mark 4:39, 41 (cp. Matthew 8:26-27; Luke 8:23-25)"And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm....and [they] said ...even the wind and the sea obey him."