Matthew 5 has these words in it, But I tell you, love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He
causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous.
Many times when hard times come our way (which we
call “rain”) we look for something evil we must have done in order to end up
under a deluge of trouble. Or we say the
“enemy” is out to get us.
I don’t believe that. I see in this verse that we are children of
our Father in heaven, a relationship that is sound and secure. The enemy can’t even get to us.
If I read this verse at face value, it says to me
that we live in the same world as our friends, those who believe and those who
don’t. What sets us apart is not that we
never experience rain or sun, but that we are children of our Father in heaven.
The rain will fall at times, but we won’t drown
under it because of His watchful eye.
And sometimes the rain that falls – He sends it – because we’re dry and
need to have deeper roots and brighter blossoms.
It brings me a lot more peace to know that trials
and troubles might come my way, even
sent to me from above, all for the purpose of making me more like Him, than it
does to think an old devil is out to get me and I have to keep running and
fighting him off.
He causes…He sends…and He’s my Father...so He defends.
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