Yesterday I posted a reel about how I love when it rains.  I do.  I love the freshness.  The replenishment.  The washing.  The filling.  I love when it rains.

I marvel at the miracle of rain.  Science has identified that “Clouds hold millions of pounds of water because that water is spread out as trillions of microscopic droplets over a massive space.”  (Source Google AI).  

Even as I have read about the scientific understanding of rain, miracles abound everywhere.  One inch of rain equates to 5.2 lbs per square foot; 10,400 lbs for an average 2000 SF roof; 226,512 lbs or an astonishing 113 tons per acre.  A square mile, 145 million pounds, equal to the weight of 10,830 elephants.  Think about how many elephants you are driving through as you go mile after mile in a downpour of rain.  You get the picture.

Ephesians 3:20-21 says “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”  Immeasurably more.  

Recently my prayer has been, ‘Father, enlarge my faith.’  I find that I pray and expect finite things from an infinite God.  I find that I limit the unlimited God because of my limited thinking.  I admire people who have the ability to scale their thoughts and expectations exponentially.  I am not one who has this capacity.  But…I am sold out to the One who can do immeasurably more than my mind can fathom.  

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”  Hebrews 11:1

Today as you look in the mirror, filled with the complete knowledge of all that you have experienced, do you trust that the Maker of rain so heavy that the weight is crushing but delivered so gentle that it sustains life can and will wash, clean and use your life experiences for growth?  This is really a simple question?  Do I trust that God can and will take the life experiences that are currently limiting me, and distribute the weight in a way that I shower those around me with love, joy and eternal truth?

All that has been building in you, like moisture accumulated in the clouds, is likely ready to be poured out.  Shared.  Sprinkled on others in the form of life experience.  The paradox of this is while your life experiences provide hope to others, the release of these also frees you from the shackles of life-limiting lies that say no one will benefit from what you have to share.  Lies!  Your life and life experiences have incredible value.  Move them from the liability side of your life’s balance sheet to the asset side, where value is assigned.

I love the rain because of its cleansing and refreshing.  Pour out your life and be the source of cleansing and refreshing to those around you.  You are needed.  Your message is needed.  You exist for a purpose much greater than you likely know.  Allow God to scale/grow you.

Let’s go.