Waiting for Rain...

What are you sure about?

That is a question I seem to be asking myself more and more these days.  This year has certainly caused me to question many things, to seek out the truth, to ponder what really matters in my life more than ever before.  Are you finding yourself longing for something you can really put your trust in during uncertain times?

As I was reading several chapters of Hosea, I came across these two passages.  

Hosea 6:3 Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; 

his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers,
as the spring rains that water the earth.”

Hosea 10:12 Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, 

and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, 
until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.

 

Has God been working on your "unplowed ground"?  Is He asking you to trust Him...to implicitly trust Him even in your greatest struggles?  Perhaps in the past you have not given Him a second thought.  Will you today?  Has there ever been a time when more of the things we thought we were sure about were challenged?  As "sure as the dawn" God is near, and He is waiting to pour out His love on us.  

One morning last week, I awoke to a crying baby...and a heavy frost.  After so many months of a productive garden and colorful flowers abounding in our yard, it was a dismal sight to see everything drooping and withered from the cold.  With this first frost come many mixed emotions about the coming winter and what lies in store in this uncertain year we have been going through.  We spent that day tearing out all the dead plants from our yard and garden.  For months now it will sit, barren and empty, but in the spring, we will turn the soil and plant...and life will begin again.  I know this with surety, and it brings me comfort to endure the winter.

I stop to think about my life.  What are my areas of "unplowed ground?"  What are the things I hang onto, place my hope in, rely on to make my days go smoothly, outside of Him? He's asking you that same question.  He's asking you to consider what a life filled with Him looks like.  In many ways, it feels as if He demands everything of me...and He does.  But that is the beauty of it, my friend.  No area of your life will remain unchanged.  The path He will take you down will never be one that you would have chosen for yourself.  It will be far better...

Churn up my unplowed ground today, dear God.  Take that hard, untouched soil and apply the plow to it.  Don't hold back and don't allow me to hold back.  That is the hardest thing about a life that truly serves You...there is no area that is safe.  But I'd rather entrust everything to You than rely on the ever shifting circumstances of this world.  So churn me up, break up my soil, and then rain down Your righteousness on me.  I'm waiting...waiting on You with eager anticipation, to see what a work You will do in me.