“MARCH WINDS!”

Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 416
March 5, 2019///

“March Winds, April Showers, bring May Flowers!”

Each of us have heard this saying for our entire lives. It truly is windy in March, rainy in April and May brings the blooming of beauty all around.

Sometimes there are destructive rains and storms in March, but the refreshing rains come in April.

As I was watching the trees blowing in the gust of wind yesterday this childhood saying came to mind. And then, as so often is the case, the Holy Spirit quickened deep inside me how much like our life this is.

We encounter the winds of adversity and trouble. The winds that may be mild sometimes, but other times almost blow us over and pull up our foundational roots that we build on.

There may be tornadoes and destructive rains and winds that tear things apart and drown things in their way.

We may face things we never imagined we would face in our lives, and we bend, and we sway but through the power of the Holy Spirit within us and our Faith in our Creator God, we stand!

This wind-blown time in our lives teaches us, IF WE LET IT, that we are stronger than we think and with Jesus as our Lord we are Victorious, and we keep standing.

Then comes the refreshing rains of the presence of the Lord God Almighty, that gives us Joy and Peace and the Knowledge that with HIM all things are possible. The dry and thirsty ground that we may have been in is soaked by this rain from the throne room of God and our roots grow and get stronger and deeper.

From that the comes the beauty of the season of life we are in. The beauty of the presences of God flows from deep within and it is witnessed by all who we meet.

When the beauty of a knowledge that we are never alone and that with God we can face whatever life throws at us fills us up, it flows on out to others. We then show the beauty of the Lord Jesus in our lives.

Then just as next March, April and May will come again, that cycle in our lives will come around again. But each windy season we will grow in the Lord and in the Power of His might and each rainy season we will bask in His goodness and refreshing and each blooming season we will show more and more beauty in our lives.

In every season the Lord God Almighty is our stronghold and our tower of strength.

In every season as we lean on the Lord, we can stand and know that God will never leave us nor forsake us.

How do we stand in the windy season so that we can get to the refreshing and beauty season?

The word teaches us it is the foundation or roots that keep us standing when the storms that would defeat others may come.

Matthew 7:24-27 (KJV)
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

My question to you this morning is, “What is your life built upon”!

Are you building on your Trust and Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, or on your own abilities and power? Life lived with Jesus is the only thing that makes sense. We all go through storms, but it is so much better to go through them with our hand in the hand of Jesus and our heart trusting in His keeping power and Love!!
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Abba Father, my Daddy God, I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and thank you for your keeping power. Thank you that you are holding us close through the storms, hills and valleys of life. Thank you that you are our strength when we are blowing and bending in the fierce winds and Thank you that your Love never fails to fill us to overflowing. Stir up in all who read this the desire to build their house on the Rock Christ Jesus. Amen

God Bless Each of You,
Love, MeMaw