Bringing In The Clouds
August 2, 2007
Ahoy, Mates!
Most of the time when people talk about clouds, they frown. It’s true. Clouds can be dark, dreary, heavy, discouraging. When those clouds come, we can claim God’s promises by faith and “scatter the clouds.” (God’s Amazing Grace, 207)
A close friend of mine, however, has never said a negative word about clouds in my hearing. “Oh, look at the clouds!” she’ll say, eyes bright, neck craned back, with a big smile on her face, and I join her. Sometimes they’re pink, orange, yellow, or purple with the sunset. Sometimes they’re clean, bright white against a deep blue. Sometimes they swirl, sometimes billow, and other times they simply defy description. Even the dark ones spark our interest and prove themselves to be a fascination as they move and change, ever ready to dump on us as we wander.
We are fully aware that some clouds bring ruin and despair, forest fires and tornados—a devilish counterfeit. We hate forest fires and the smoke that clouds the air because of them.
I just looked in my Bible’s small concordance, and all but one of the entries on “cloud” or “clouds” were good and happy things, like God protecting the children of Israel with His pillar of cloud and Jesus coming again in His glory with the clouds.
We’re thankful this week that people in our conference dispel the darkness by their generosity. We’re getting closer and closer to the Streams of Light goal every day!
Do you think that scattering by faith the dark clouds of evil over ourselves and our fellow humans could usher in the clouds of glory sooner?
On behalf of Patsy Wagner,
Heidi C. Corder
Development Assistant