If you ask for it to Rain, why do you go outside and not take an Umbrella?
I have not blogged in a long time and I think about doing it every night, but I get to tired and fall asleep!!! I have some many things on my mind though and now I am finally just going to write! So if it sounds bad it's because I am just gonna start typing and let it all just flow =)!
Okay sometimes I come up with some really awkward analogies but I see it like this... When you pray you expect change. If you ask for it to rain, why do you go out and not take an umbrella? Sometimes we get discouraged because we do something and nothing happens, so we give up! It's like in sports, let's say soccer...Every practice you show up first you put all your gear on and sit patiently, practice starts and everyone starts jogging, goofing off, talking about their day, and you run your hardest and never goof around. You push every practice to get better and try to impress the coach. When it comes to game time you are always sitting on the bench, and you are thinking, okay next practice I am going to try harder and run faster and ask the coach what I am doing wrong as the other players just sit around. You strive to do your hardest to get that starting position, as each game goes by you get more and more discouraged because you have worked so hard and you are sitting the bench. Finally it comes to the last week of practice right before the last game and you decide well I can never impress the coach so why try so hard, and you become lazy and don't really do anything at all during practice. The day of the last game you sit down on the bench and your coach just looks at you and shakes his head and your thinking what?? I have tried hard all season and you never played me now you are just looking at me and shaking your head?? So after the game your coach comes up and talks to you and says I have been very impressed with your attitude this season and all your hard work and never complaining until this last week of practice! I was planning on starting you and letting you play for the scout (of a huge university) and acknowledging you with an award of hard work and inspiration infront of the entire soccer league, but how do you succeed if you give up?
It's like when we pray sometimes we pray for something or someone and nothing every happens so we give up, it's like trying to chop down a tree, every time you hit it, it comes a little closer to falling down, but let's say you stop. How many more hits until it fell down? Maybe 100, maybe 1!! If we give up just because nothing is happening, imagine how close you were! My Grandma and Grandpa prayed for me every night in hopes that maybe one day I would be saved! I am so glad that they never gave up, it feels good to know that someone was praying and is praying for you every night! Just because we don't see a change right away doesn't mean it won't happen, God has a perfect plan! One year might seem forever, but it is worth it to see someone get saved in the end or to see something change that you have always been praying for. So again, if you ask for it to rain, why do you go out and not take an umbrella? If you ask for it to rain, take an umbrella with you every time, and maybe at one time it will rain =)!!
Hopefully that all makes since (sense) and that is just something I have been thinking about, anyways have a goodnight!! God Bless!!
Okay sometimes I come up with some really awkward analogies but I see it like this... When you pray you expect change. If you ask for it to rain, why do you go out and not take an umbrella? Sometimes we get discouraged because we do something and nothing happens, so we give up! It's like in sports, let's say soccer...Every practice you show up first you put all your gear on and sit patiently, practice starts and everyone starts jogging, goofing off, talking about their day, and you run your hardest and never goof around. You push every practice to get better and try to impress the coach. When it comes to game time you are always sitting on the bench, and you are thinking, okay next practice I am going to try harder and run faster and ask the coach what I am doing wrong as the other players just sit around. You strive to do your hardest to get that starting position, as each game goes by you get more and more discouraged because you have worked so hard and you are sitting the bench. Finally it comes to the last week of practice right before the last game and you decide well I can never impress the coach so why try so hard, and you become lazy and don't really do anything at all during practice. The day of the last game you sit down on the bench and your coach just looks at you and shakes his head and your thinking what?? I have tried hard all season and you never played me now you are just looking at me and shaking your head?? So after the game your coach comes up and talks to you and says I have been very impressed with your attitude this season and all your hard work and never complaining until this last week of practice! I was planning on starting you and letting you play for the scout (of a huge university) and acknowledging you with an award of hard work and inspiration infront of the entire soccer league, but how do you succeed if you give up?
It's like when we pray sometimes we pray for something or someone and nothing every happens so we give up, it's like trying to chop down a tree, every time you hit it, it comes a little closer to falling down, but let's say you stop. How many more hits until it fell down? Maybe 100, maybe 1!! If we give up just because nothing is happening, imagine how close you were! My Grandma and Grandpa prayed for me every night in hopes that maybe one day I would be saved! I am so glad that they never gave up, it feels good to know that someone was praying and is praying for you every night! Just because we don't see a change right away doesn't mean it won't happen, God has a perfect plan! One year might seem forever, but it is worth it to see someone get saved in the end or to see something change that you have always been praying for. So again, if you ask for it to rain, why do you go out and not take an umbrella? If you ask for it to rain, take an umbrella with you every time, and maybe at one time it will rain =)!!
Hopefully that all makes since (sense) and that is just something I have been thinking about, anyways have a goodnight!! God Bless!!
posted by Heather @ 10:12 PM
2 Comments:
At 10:23 PM,
Zita Stillings said…
Thanks for finally blogging!I can concur with your thoughts, I do pray sometimes not expecting an answer.Since I do this I am putting God in a box and He's the One that created the box that I am trying to place Him in.I know so often we fail to see the end result of our asking God for His help.That is definitely where I fail and God begins!
At 9:20 PM,
Jacob said…
Very cool. It's so easy to get tired, and slow down. God just wants us to be faithful. If he says to water some seeds, we should water them every day. Even when nothing sprouts and grows immediately, it's not our job to make them grow. God only asked us to water them. Take bamboo bulbs for example. They spend 1 to 2 years underground just growing the root system. . In this time, they don’t even sprout up. Can you imagine cultivating the ground for 1 or 2 years, and not seeing results. Continuing to be faithful and yet not see the harvest. We are just called to be faithful, and God will do the rest. The other amazing thing about bamboo, is once that starting season begins, it can grow to full height in one season. Just like that, it can be fully-grown. Some species have been shown as growing as much as 100 cm per day. That means you could almost sit there and watch it grow. Amazing, God gives us pictures of spiritual in natural things. Nature, God’s parable.
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