So often everything boils down to how we see something…These two pictures were taken from my office parking lot within seconds of each other. The only difference was the direction I was pointed. I think a picture (or two) is worth a thousand words...

What’s your perspective? Are you facing the direction of the big, black, scary clouds of gloom or are you facing the bright blue expanse of God’s great sky?

It’s all a matter of perspective. What direction are you looking?

“Now then, stand still and see this great thing the LORD is about to do before your eyes!” 1 Samuel 12:16

It feels like it has been raining for ever…we’ve been so dry and in great need of rain and now that it’s here, we seem to have an abundance…more than we really need or thought we’d get. But isn’t that just like God? As the need grows, we pray; we might even get a little desperate. But when He hears from heaven and begins to supply our needs, He overwhelms us with His generosity! Let’s continue to pray for our country and its desperate need for Him; pray for the lost around world. Soon He’ll hear from heaven and overwhelm us with His generosity…He’ll rain down on us! That’s what He does.

"You heavens above, rain down righteousness;
let the clouds shower it down.
Let the earth open wide,
let salvation spring up,
let righteousness grow with it;
I, the LORD, have created it.”
Isaiah 45:8