God cries for us

I was out riding Missy for a much needed life break....As we rode through the mist and clouds, I couldn't help but think of all the clouds and rain in my life and I wondered if God really cared about all this stuff in my life.   Even the rain wouldn't quit all the way...While riding my mind kept thinking of all the recent rain in my life:  my RA flaring and the hassle of doctor appointments and insurance and learning new things, the overload of work that I can't get done because of either crazy heat or constant rain or body pain/fatigue, the things I want to do for God, but can't seem to find the energy or time, my concern about my health and future...And God to top it all off, this rain won't quit...I wondered why God had made it so humid or rain so much (as to ruin all the full capacity of the roundup spray and pasture fence line growing so out of control it'll be a miracle if I can clear it without getting poison ivy)...then there's other concerns like family, friends, church, the world, and they all have problems or concerns that need attention or prayer and it makes your heart hurt, but you don't know what to do about all the worldly problems or your friends and families....Where ARE YOU God?  so you do the one thing you can do...pray.

As I talked with God in the rain on Missy, God gave me a little insight that popped into my head that helped me see this rain in a different light.  What if rain was God's tears?  What if when it rains God is doing His best to show us that He is concerned with our problems, He does see the worlds hurts, He is concerned for us and because He loves us...Our God, my God cries on my (our) behalf!  Maybe some of you can't imagine our big mighty God crying!  let alone for us.....but He Does!!  He feels our pain, our hurts, our brokenness and He cries for us.  Jesus cried for Lazarus....do you remember the shortest verse in the Bible?  It's "Jesus wept."  I began to feel happy as I rode along on Missy and began to appreciate all the rain...God cries for me...for us all....I thought, Wow, God is really having a good cry right now, but there is lots happening in each one of our lives and God wants to show us that He is seeing that...He knows!  He loves you!  He's crying for you!  I bet God would love to swoop down to us and pick us up in His arms and just hold us in a loving embrace, but He chooses to not do this physically yet so He has to show us some other way....so God created rain.  His tears wash over our wounds and cleanse them.  They wash our scars, our dirt, and our fears.  The hot anger we feel is cooled by His refreshing tears.  Our pains our drowned in His tears of love for us.  Our hearts melted by just one of His teardrops.

So what remains after our God cries over us?  A new, refreshed us.  Cleansed by our God's tears we can once again face our fears.  Why does God let it rain?  So He can show us that His love still remains!  We can once again say, "Thank you, God, for letting me know you love me!'   When everything else is cloudy and raining in our life, we can still know that God loves us!

Missy and I started to enjoy our cloudy, rainy ride and I couldn't help but sing praises to my God as we rode down the country road.  I wasn't about to let satan defeat me now...my God was present and just like our ground here I was over saturated by His love!

So now, I smile at my God and let the rain wash down my face and arms and wherever it wants to go because it's love from my God and it makes my heart feel so good when I know He loves me so much to even cry over me and any of my struggles.  My God is so good.  Bring on the rain, God.  I need to feel your love again and again because I am weak, but thankful your love is strong!