As I was meditating in my garden on a summer’s day in August covered by a beautiful blue sky spotted with white fluffy clouds, I noticed in a fresh way how slowly but steadily the clouds were moving as opposed to the sun which remained steadfast as its rays broke through the clouds, when Papa dropped this encouraging word in my heart.
Dear Child,
Look at the sky! See how the clouds are always moving away. Remember the sun is always there behind those clouds, ready to break through but the clouds are not always there. Trials only last for a season but I am always there working in My sovereignty behind the trials that all things may work together for good.
Without clouds there is no rain to nourish your garden. Without clouds in your life, the sun cannot break through. Without trials there is no sweet fragrance of victory!
Just as the clouds work for good and become refreshing rain, there is a divine purpose behind every cloud in your life.
Thus saith Papa
1Peter 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Andre Crouch penned it so well in his song,
“ Through it all, I’ve learned to trust in Jesus, I’ve learned to trust in God.
For if I never had my problems, I would never know what faith in God could do.
I have learned that my trials only come to make me strong.”
CHALLENGE: Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Proverbs 3:5
