I was watching a Facebook video of a father introducing his baby to rain for the first time. It must have been somewhere warm since they were in shorts. They dashed out into the rain and danced around just a bit and then dashed back inside. The baby squealed with delight, clapped his hands, and pointed to the rain again. Out they went again. Back inside the baby was once more delighted and wanted to go back out and dance again in the rain. I’m not sure how long this went on, the video stopped.
As I watched I thought about our Heavenly Father who wants to introduce us to the rain of His Holy Spirit. He wants to carry us out to dance in it. He wants us filled with delight as He rains righteousness upon this earth.
“Heavens, sprinkle from above, and let the skies shower righteousness. Let the earth open up so that salvation will sprout and righteousness will spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it” [Isaiah 45:8 HCSB]
Zechariah 10:1 instructs us to ask for the rain we need. “Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men ….”
Granted there are times when we must ask for literal rain. Parts of our nation have been experiencing drought conditions for years now and many have been asking for literal rain from God to break that drought. But there is also a drought of God’s Spirit, of righteousness, of salvation in our land. We need to ask our Father for the rain of His Holy Spirit to fall upon our land.
Can you just image the delight as we dance in the rain of righteousness in the arms of our Father!
