A Sudden Change In The Weather!

He answered and said unto them, when it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? Mt 16:2,3

This afternoon before my bike ride I was at my mom’s house and a weather report came on saying that there was a storm headed our way. I really wanted to get my daily bike ride in so I decided to go ahead and ride it quickly before the weather changed. When I went outside it was a bit overcast but nothing dangerous looking so I decided to ride. About 1 mile into the ride I decided to turn around an head back to the house because the wind was beginning to pick up and it looked as if the storm was moving faster than I had thought.

The first part of the ride had been all up hill and I was so looking forward to the downhill coast back to the house and knew that there would be no problem in getting there before the rain. Surprise! The weather changed quickly and I found myself having to peddle extremely hard against a tremendously strong head wind. I was not able to coast at all I had to work very hard to make it down a hill. This seemed somewhat strange to me to have to work to go downhill. The rain began to sprinkle and between the wind and the rain it was the most exhausting downhill ride ever. Let’s face it who ever heard of it being difficult to ride downhill. It just doesn’t make sense.

There are times in our lives when we are on the mountaintop spiritually speaking and we are enjoying the view. God speaks to us up on that mountain top and saying,” go into the valley” and we are so excited and pumped from our spiritual mountaintop high that we say “hey no problem I can do that after all the valley is down the hill. I can just coast. Surprise! Satan doesn’t want you in the valley. You will be down there messing with his plans to destroy people’s lives and so when you head back down to the valley he is going to bring the very forces of hell against you. You are going to have to peddle harder and exert more strength to get to the valley than it ever took to get you to the mountaintop.

It’s doesn’t seem easy to get up and go to church on Sunday’s and get all dressed up and sit in nice cool or heated building, sing and pray and see all of your friends. It seems like an uphill ride, but It’s even harder to get up every day, intercede and for the lost, and then and go out into the highways and byways. It’s hard to walk into the enemies’ camp proclaiming the good news, but guess what? That is exactly where God wants you.

Head toward those souls in the valley, and put forth every effort to reach them. There is a storm headed our way and there is coming a sudden change in the weather. Are you ready to work to go downhill into the valley and claim those souls for the kingdom?