"There's no such thing as bad weather, only inadequate clothing."
Rain, rain, rain. Yesterday, today, tomorrow, a chance the next day. Raining on the just and the unjust.
I often wonder when we pray that it won't rain (like the day of Laura's wedding--my, how it poured and how we prayed!), and God knows that the farmers need the rain, does He attend to our prayers for a dry day, or to the farmers' prayers for a good soaking? My hunch is that in His sovereignty He has His laws of nature set in motion, and unless there's some ultimate purpose to intervene, He doesn't. The wedding went on in the rain, and so did the reception that was partly outdoors under a canopy tent. As far as we could tell, everyone took it in stride and enjoyed themselves anyway.
Storms are different. We know the devastation and heartache caused recently by some severe storms throughout the South. I know there are some who chase after storms, but most of us don't like to be in storms. Sometimes God calms the storms, and sometimes He doesn't. When He doesn't, though, He goes through them with us.
The storms of life reveal our faith. When the disciples were in the boat and a storm arose, Jesus asked them, "Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?" (Mark 4:40). Our own lack of faith causes us to fear, but our lack of faith does not cause Him to turn away from us. He is our refuge, a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1). But His question, "Where is your faith?" challenges the disciples and us to grow stronger in our faith. Why? So we won't be so fearful when the storms of life come.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only inadequate faith.
"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God
whose ways you may not understand at the time."
~ C.H. Spurgeon
