Five years ago we moved to Pittsburgh PA. At that time in my life I had learned to deal with the pain and limitations on my life pretty well. Problem was that somehow over the years, I had allowed going to church to become optional. I wasn't daily talking with the Lord, using the excuse that the meds made it hard for me to read the Bible. I truly did have trouble with anything that took much thought. But all those years of not having devotions or praying left me feeling like a dried up old stream bed.
And worst thing was I didn't know how to change that feeling. I started going to church again weekly, getting involved in our church but still, just wasn't feeling it at all.
I have come to realize that the Lord has drawn me back to himself and in his own special way he has revived that stream bed! It's been quite the process. And I know that at least this stream bed has been revived and is no longer all dried up.
But sometimes as in after my healing I felt like a deluge had hit me and the old stream bed was a rushing torrent.
These words from Hosea sum up what I have felt in the past few years...the call to come back to the Lord. And, if we turn back to him, he will come to us like the spring rains which in Jerusalem the spring rains were like a torrent, a downpour! A deluge! I felt like that deluge hit me when I was healed and almost swept away in the Joy!
Hosea 6:1-3
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces
but he will heal us;
he has injured us
but he will bind up our wounds.
2 After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will restore us,
that we may live in his presence.
3 Let us acknowledge the Lord;
let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,
like the spring rains that water the earth.”
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