Rain and Classical Music

By: Missionary Team

Today it rained. It rained and I just watched the rain fall. I watched as rain drop after raindrop fell from the clouds and landed on this earth. Down, down, and down it kept falling. As I watched, I listened to classical music. I love classical music so much, especially piano and strings. I can’t tell you how at peace I was. I could have done it for hours, but I had work to do. Classical music and rain. It doesn't get much better than that...

God is so good to us! Yes, I feel a little stressed and I’ve been struggling a good amount for the past couple days, but God always shows me how close He is to us. Today He showed me His nearness and intimacy through the rain and music. Oh, my soul, why do you ask for more from God. Why do you constantly search for more than what your Beloved has already given you? Lift up your head, God is with you. Oh Lord thank you...

We have to stop looking and searching for things to make us happy. We have already been given so much, and if we’re not happy now, then we won’t be happy when we get that said thing. So often I forget this simple truth. Our Lord has given us such a gift of joy and peace and sometimes all we really have to do is ask for them.

Ask for them and be ok with what you are given. Sometimes it's something simple, like being hit by the beauty of a tree or maybe it is something more profound. Whatever it is, we must be grateful. We can find joy in these things because they were given by God and God knows us better than anyone, even ourselves.

Yesterday I was in the back of a van and while we were driving, I saw a lake. It wasn’t the most beautiful lake, but to me, it left me speechless. God had made that lake for me. He made it because He knew that I would be struggling that day and that that lake would give me strength. We are given so many opportunities to see how close God is. The other day while I was talking with some other people, it hit me that our Lord died for them just as much as He died for me. To be honest, I think I fell in love with the person I was talking to, but it wasn’t in a weird way, it wasn’t in the way the world uses “fell in love”.

I just loved the person so much because Christ loved them so much and died for them, and I love Jesus too. Yo guys, lift up your head and see all the goodness that the Lord has put in your life. Look how He comforts you and loves you. God is so close to us, soo soooo close! All the time!