We have rain again, glorious rain! Around 5 am today it stormed for a short period with lightning and thunder. It was so wonderful to have the rain and I thanked God for it. I fixed some coffee and because the rain had ended by then I was able to sit with the back door open as I drank coffee. I listened to the birds singing so happily. They too were releived by the rain I imagine. I prayed and thanked God for all of His blessings including the birds who made me feel happy just to hear them. I wonder how much the little birds suffer in the heat?
I feel so refreshed and rested and energetic this morning. It feels good to have gotten out of an obligation that I had going on for about a year. I had been doing a small job for someone for a little over a year this month and I had grown burned out on it. I never had a vacation during the year so that had an effect on me too. So now I'm free again, and it feels so marvelous!!
Yesterday I had a wonderful day. I have begun to get caught up on reading the news in the Trumpet.com online and began posting to Twitter again. I had gotten so pulled down over the matter with my neighbor going on and the job I was doing that I didn't want to do much of anything online for a number of weeks. Yesterday I felt totally free! It felt so good! And this morning I continue to experience such joy. It's as if a huge burden has been lifted and maybe it has. I was getting so burned out on the small job that I had been doing all this past year. I was worn out and weary of it. And now I feel nearly like my old self again. *smile*
God has greatly blessed me in so much lately. I can't show my gratitude to Him enough I think. But I can overcome some problems that I've not given up on completely yet and try to spend more time in Bible study. I have read in the Bible where God was well pleased when people were obedient to Him. I think that's a wonderful thought, to be pleasing to God. There is no higher honor it seems to me than to be pleasing to God.
When we are pleasing to God then He blesses us with wonderful answers to our prayers and many other things as well. This past Sabbath I asked God, if it was His will, to allow me to remain cool since my car air conditioner doesn't operate too well and is in need of replacement or repair. The temperature most days has been in the 100 degree range here and it was to be that day also. I didn't want to have to try to use the AC since when it is turned up past the first number one it makes a loud racket. I think the fan may be about to go out.
When I left services during the hottest part of day, it was pretty warm and the sun was shining brightly. I asked God once more to protect me from the scorching heat since I would be over an hour driving in it without much if any cool air. I decided to endure the heat for as long as I could at least before trying to use the AC, so I rolled down the windows in the car. Once I was out of the city of Knoxville on the Interstate a cloud covering began forming and it began to look like rain even though it never rained. But the cloud covering kept the sun's blazing rays from coming through all the way home for me.
A nice breeze came through the open windows and it wasn't hot but not real cool either, just cool enough however to make the drive pleasantly bearable. The wind blowing into the car whipped my hair everywhere but I didn't mind . I was so deliriously happy with the blessing of the cooler air that I talked to God out loud and thanked Him over and over again. I rejoiced in the way He had answered my prayer. I don't expect this to happen each time I pray for relief from the weather, but I will certainly be so excited when God allows it to be cooler as He did that afternoon.
I sang and talked to God as my hair flew all over the place in the air. I wondered if the people driving around me who noticed me singing and grinning from ear to ear as I thanked God out loud may have wondered if I'd gone insane. *laugh* I don't mind if they thought I was nuts. If I could have at that moment I would have also danced before God in joy and thankfulness as David did when he joyfully danced before the LORD while bringing the Ark of God into the city of Jerusalem.
What a powerful and merciful God we serve! The Eternal God of Israel.
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