The Rains will Come in their Season

Thursday already, Reader-Friends!? Wow.

There are just a few days before my amazing semester starts. Woop, woop for senior year of college!

My heart is already celebrating.

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So, I want to invite you to my recent light bulb moment. Seriously, I mean seriously, ever since I became honest and open about where I needed God to work in my life, he has! You can backtrack here.

 

I have been in the Bible book of Leviticus the past two days, and God has given me so much insight to how he is working in my life! I know, right; straight from the ancient Old Testament! Anyway, the twenty sixth chapter of Leviticus touches on blessings for obedience and discipline for disobedience.

 

First, let’s chat about the blessings. God refers to the land a lot because it was the people’s resource for livelihood, I like to think that the land kind of symbolizes my life in general-home, relationships, career, etc. He told the Israelites, if you walk in your life as I have asked you to, then you will be provided for; your crops will yield fruit.  “The rains will come in their season,” he stated. To me, that was God saying that if I trust and obey him, then the things that are supposed to happen will happen exactly when they are supposed to happen: in their season. For some reason that doesn’t seem as difficult to understand today as it did two weeks ago. Oh, how he can melt a hardened heart.

 

And now for the discipline. This is where I had my “ah ha” moment. God said that he would take away the “pride of my power” and that if I did not obey him, I would “toil in vain.” This makes so much sense! My most habitual disobedience to God is in the department of control. I want to control my life, because I want to feel safe and secure. I want to know where I’m going and make sure I have enough to survive. And here is the big one: I want assurance and approval and security from the people in my life so badly that I make myself sick trying to get it. But it’s not from God, and therefore I “toil” after it “in vain.”

 

Since God is kind of a master weaver, he threw in another loom for my benefit. Yesterday, on the way home from my college town I was listening to that lovely and feisty lady Beth Moore. I picked up her library CD from Lifeway that has snippets from her various Bible Studies. I listen to two amazing tracks but wanted to force myself to stop so that I could safe the rest for other drives. I ended up saying “oh, just one more.” Of course, that one more happened to be mind-blowing and exactly what I needed to hear! She started talking about all the different reasons people seem to fail at giving us our emotional desires. The one that hit home with me was the fact that maybe getting my emotional desires fed is such a “savior complex” to me that that is why God is not allowing it to happen. How do you wean a baby from the bottle? You stopped giving it to him! “Ah ha!”

 

BM said many more enlightening things that I wish you all could hear. The CD is only two bucks at Lifeway right now. If you click that link it will take you straight to the order page. 

 

I have been overwhelmed with clarity these past few days. I have been fighting God so hard on his discipline that I couldn’t even see what he was doing for me. I was in such an unhealthy situation, and he has been healing me all along. Ladies and even gentlemen, get your provision from God. The triumph that comes when someone doesn’t give you what you wanted and you walk okay, because you know a place where you will always get it, is so sweet.

 

The rains will come in their season.