Are you beginning to feel a little damp? I mean, even just gazing out of the window at the incessant downpour makes me feel moist. It just goes on and on doesn’t it? And the numerous buckets we have under the hole in our church roof that keep needing emptying … that is becoming somewhat tedious too!
Mind you, I don’t know what I have to complain about. I am blessed to live in a house on high ground (or as close to high as you can get in South Essex!) so no danger of floods or ruined possessions. Not like the poor people facing ruin in other parts of the country or those living on the west coasts facing danger to life and limb just going out of their front door!
I was changing a tyre wearing my cassock at the crematorium the other day (don’t ask!) and the kind mourner who was helping me despite the pelting rain asked me, as he gazed skywards: “can’t you ask Him to let up for a bit?”
I should have told him about Noah. Now there was a guy who knew something about rain! Just him and his family of seven plus an assorted menagerie David Attenborough would have been proud of, in a large wooden boat sailing through forty days of non-stop deluge. Rain enough to sink the world!
The important thing is that God said He would never do it again. No matter how much rain He sent in future days, God promised to never flood the earth again. And he arranged a rainbow in the sky to remind us of that promise.
So if you’re mildly inconvenienced or desperately distressed by rain and wind and flood, why not take the opportunity to thank the Creator that, however it may seem, He is still in charge and He can still be trusted.
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea …from Psalm 46
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