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Perhaps you are undergoing some trial as God’s child, and you are saying to Him,
“O God, it is raining very hard on me tonight, and this test seems beyond my power to endure. Disappointments are pouring in, washing away and utterly defeating my chosen plans. My trembling heart is grieved and is cowering at the intensity of my suffering. Surely the rains of affliction are beating down my soul.”
Dear friend, you are completely mistaken. God is not raining rain on you——He is raining blessings.
If you will only believe your Father’s Word, you will realize that springing up beneath the pounding rain are spiritual flowers. And they are more beautiful and fragrant than those that ever grew before in your storm-less and suffering-free life.
You can see the rain, but can you also see the flowers?
You are suffering through these tests, but know that God sees sweet flowers of faith springing up in your life beneath these very trials.
You try to escape the pain, yet God sees tender compassion for other sufferers finding birth in your soul.
Your heart winces at the pain of heavy grief, but God sees the sorrow deepening and enriching your life.
No, my friend, it is not raining afflictions on you.
It is raining tenderness, love, compassion, patience, and a thousand other flowers and fruits of the blessed Holy Spirit. And they are bringing to your life spiritual enrichment that all the prosperity and ease of this world could never produce in your innermost being. -J.M.M.--6/15 Streams in the Desert
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Genesis 41:52
“God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”
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