I came home tonight to discover water coming out of the kitchen ceiling. I can assure you it was not showers of blessings. I had visions of tearing out the ceiling and remortgaging the house to get a plumber here after hours. Then my wife came home and instantly said, “Oh, I know what is wrong” as she headed upstairs. She knew! She fixed it. I am one lucky man. (She even likes football!) A few towels and a bucket had us back in order. On reconsideration of life professions I should have been a plumber.
It was a seriously leaking valve. I knew it wasn’t showers of blessings because God doesn’t leak good things on us. He is prodigal. God is a big spender. He can be. He has unlimited assets. When He promises He comes through. “I will bless them and the places surrounding my hill. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.” Ezekiel 34:26. Note that the showers will come in season. They will come when we are ready for them. There is no point in giving a five-year-old a new car or an eighty-five-year-old a Harley. When the time is exactly right He will see to it that we are cared for.
What is great is He knows exactly what to give. We are Christmas shopping for our grandchildren. That is not easy. We don’t know what they are tuned into. In Macy’s today there were pictures of Macy’s Stars all over the place. I assume the grandchildren would have known. I have no idea who those people were. Stars? Really? They could have been people that worked in Macy’s accounting department for all I knew. But the Good News is we have a Father who knows all.
Written by Roger Bothwell on December 4, 2012
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