IN THE STORM WITHOUT AN UMBRELLA

     You get up and get ready for work without looking outside yet. You’re going to wear your nice linen outfit with your favorite pair of fancy flip flops. You’re so excited because you know that when you get to your destination that people will be looking at you in your awesome outfit and say how wonderful you look. You giggle to yourself as you ponder the many compliments you will get. Then you run down to the garage, jump in the car and open the garage door to leave and it’s raining – really hard! “Oh man, so much for my nice outfit”, you say to yourself as you watch the water splashing against your car window while you slowly pull back in the garage to change clothes. “Now I’m going to have to change into my other clothes, get my overcoat, my rain hat, and my umbrella”.


     When it rains, and I mean a downpour, what do you do before you leave the house? Do you just run out into the rain without any protection anyway? Of course not, not most people at least. Most people will make sure they are protected when they know they’re going through the door to encounter a storm. Some will even turn on the TV to get the latest weather report, not just for now but for the whole day so they know what to expect.

     So if you’ll do all of this for a natural storm, why wouldn’t you protect yourself when you’re walking through the open door to the next opportunity that God presented to you. The Bible says in Psalms 27:5, “For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock”. The Lord our God said He will be our shelter during the rain. He will be our umbrella to protect us from the rain if we just take Him with us. The problem is many of us don’t. We run right through an open door without praying and fasting and seeking the Lord on His direction. That’s what I mean when I say carry the Lord with you. When God opens a door for you don’t just jump up and run through it. Make sure you doing it God’s way. When you do, God will bring you through it. Because He is the ultimate “umbrella” during the rain.

God bless you!

Robert T Sells
http://www.robertsellsonline.com/

Proverbs 10:25 “When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever.

Isaiah 25:4 “You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat”.