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First, read the post below. As I was hanging up laundry this morning, I was thinking about yesterday's storm that I got caught in that I posted about below. I was a little afraid of the lightening, but I didn't mind the rain or the hail. I wasn't irritated or bothered by it. And then I remembered something that happened last week: I was driving in the car, upset about something and listening to a CD that I'd never heard before. It was Casting Crowns and the song was "I Praise You in The Storm." I started to cry and at the exact moment that a tear rolled down my cheek, these words were sung: "Every tear I cry..." The tear rolled off my chin: "you hold in your hand..." It felt like shocks went thru me because of the words and the timing of the tear. I pictured that tear falling in God's hand! Then more of the words were (not in order of the song): "Once again, I say Amen, and it's still raining... As the thunder rolls, I barely hear you whisper thru the rain, I'm with you... You are who you are, no matter where I am... I praise you in the storm!" I remember feeling convicted during that moment in the car that I don't praise God in the storms I go thru. I just pray that the storm goes away. Well, yesterday, I didn't praise God in that real storm either-I just prayed each time I had to hold that metal gate that I didn't get electrocuted and thinking how stupid I was to be doing this-and why did they continue to get the hay during this weather?? As the words to this song went thru my mind, I had a picture of what I must have looked like yesterday-standing soaked from rain, pelted with hail, black rolling clouds, claps of thunder and flashes of lightening. And the words to that song played in the background of my mind... I just shook my head at myself and said, "God, is it ok if I praise you now... after the storm? And thank you that I didn't get hit by lightening." |
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