Spring Rain

My wife made me an apple pie last week. As you read this you may be asking yourself why this is so significant. You are not alone, I asked her the same thing. She replied so matter of fact, and without even thinking. I know you like apple pie I had some apples that needed to be used , so I made you a pie. Let me give you a little back round, my wife to my taste makes the best apple pie in the world. I don’t have apple pie anywhere else except when at home. All the rest of the apple pies to my taste are not as good as hers. So I don’t waste my time having them outside of home.

When I stop to think about things , not just going through life without seeing or stopping to think . I start to see things I miss when I just plow through and think only of myself or how only it benefits me. I have more time right now than I usually have. So I decided to read the book of Zechariah. I confess that I have to read some things three or four times to start to understand what I am reading. Not just reading the words, but to begin to understand what the writer is wanting to convey in the text. Which happened to me in chapter 10 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zech%2010&version=NIV). It said “ask to Lord for the rain in the springtime” (click link for the complete text) That sounds pretty easy doesn’t it, fairly straight forward. I thought about those 9 words all day, I asked God to revel the complete meaning to me, throughout the day. You guessed it I utterly forgot about it as I went throughout my day. The next morning without thinking again I went back and read Zechariah 10 again. When I reread those 9 words again God reminded me of my prayer from yesterday. Then ask me if I was ready to listen, or if I wanted a repeat of yesterday. Going on with my day and forgetting him, and what I had asked him to do.

I ask for forgiveness and said yes I was ready to listen this time. God recapped a couple of the situations in my life in the very recent past where I had plunged ahead and tried to solve problems and situations without stopping to first ask him, for the spring rain in my life. Asking God for the help, and not leaning on my own understanding or ways to solve things. Once again God like my wife in spite of me , took the time to do something for me that I don’t deserve. Not having done anything remotely to be able to deserve the gift I received. I am not alone in this, all of us at one time or another are the recipients of something we don’t deserve to our good.

I constantly ask God to please help me to slow down and ask him ,then to follow through with that request to be able to see how God does it much better than I could ever dream of doing it.

P.S. Yes the pie was great