Today’s story starts in a foreign country called Serbia on a rainy day. This little town of Sombor is busy during the daytime. Almost as if people didn’t have jobs, and if they did, they were always out about and moving around the town. It is honestly an amazing small town experience not seen often if ever in America. The weather here is perfect and the attitudes are heart warming. Here it is easy to realize that God created these people to be unique, and yet, they don’t realize it. But what happens to these fresh air loving, upbeat people when they can’t, and I use that term loosely, go outside. Don’t get me wrong, they can go outside, but if they do they’ll get wet obviously. Myself, well I came prepared with a rain suit, thank the boy scouts and experience for that one. So I decided to suit up and head out into the town to see what the difference was between the sunny day bustling markets that were this morning, and the dreary rainy day that had come out of no where. When I went out on the town it was like a ghost town. Guys, I mean ghost town. Several places were shut down, people were no where to be seen. So I decided that I was going to go get some pizza (obviously) and just sit down and maybe face time my family, which I did, and just ask the lord what he wanted my evening to look like. That being said I struck up a conversation with the people who were working at this place. They’re super friendly and mostly speak English so I have been using them as part of my way to speak some basic Serbian. Of course they laugh at me when I attempt it but, in their defense, I would do the same thing. As we were talking about the town and where they came from etc etc etc. It hit me. These people, the Serbian’s of Sombor, are actively living an example of what happens to almost every Christian who faces life by themselves. They simple go inside and hide from the world when life gets them a little “wet”. What I mean by that is that when something other than the normal comes our way we tend to just hide under a rock until it passes over. What if God is asking us to go out amongst the storm because someone in it doesn’t know that God offers a better way? What if God wants us to go save someone who is in the “rain of life” because they don’t know what Sunshine really is?? Guys theses HUGE!!! How can we stay inside during the pain and suffering of life when there may be people who need to see what you are doing in that season of life, and how you react to it may bring them to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Romans 8: 35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?”
You guys, I can’t even explain how big this is. Don’t let the rain of life get you down when God wants to use you to be the light that breaks through someone else clouds surrounding their hearts and minds. I dare you never to look at a rain storm again. As an avid backpacker, I used to hate the rain, it made everything a mess. Instead of now hating the rain for the mess it makes, now go out in the rain, thankful for its return and opportunity to be the light that breaks the storms for others. I dare you to go get “wet” for other people so that you may put God in their lives so that he will pull them through the storm. God WILL use you, but you have to be willing to move your own two feet when He says “GO”. And that, I can promise you, he will say.
I love you all! And that is the revelation that hit me today. I hope and pray that this may help you in your walk with God. And for those of you who aren’t walking with God because you can’t see through the storms, Ive been there, just read my first blog. God has promised to bring us through those storms of life. Sure we’ll get a little “wet” in the process. But if my Boy Scout experience has taught me anything, its that you don’t know how to stay dry if you have never gotten rained on. God Bless!!
