The Call -

They were a missionary couple with a call, a call to go to Brazil.  When God specially spoke to them about going, they were not too pleased about it.  It was a hard decision and they struggled with it.

The husband said, "Lots of poisonous snakes and spiders, don’t feel the safety in going!" and his wife agreed.

They did not go eventually.  They had a baby boy.  Traveling would be difficult, and of course the fear of snakes and spiders loomed heavily in their mind.

Four years slipped by.  One day, their toddler was playing in the backyard.  Sometime later, his mother called him in and he did not come.  She went to the backyard to find a horrible shock.  Their little child was dead.  They found out later that he had been bitten by a poisonous rattlesnake.

The pain was too deep.  Deeper than a knife.  There was no healing balm.

Eventually after a year, they obeyed that call and went to Brazil.  They slowly began to heal.  The Lord touched them anew.  They got another baby.  Of course the first one's pain could totally never be erased.

Would we say God had punished them for not obeying.  Personally, I think it works more like when we don’t obey the call, we break a hedge and a serpent bites us.  Satan has power over our lives when we don’t walk in obedience to what God is speaking to us about.  Satan gets those rights.  We should never give him those rights.  Walk in obedience and we walk in Divine Protection, daily.

Proverbs 29:1  "A man who hardens his neck after much reproof will suddenly be broken beyond remedy."

Galatians 1:15 "But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased."

Philippians 3:14:  "I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."

If God is calling you for something, go for it, don’t wait.  It is God's power and grace that will help you to accomplish it.

Silver Rain is a devotional based on true incidents.  I called it Silver Rain because I had a vision of beautiful silver rain falling down.  I saw a musical later with beautiful gentle rain falling down.  Later, I opened the Bible and found the verse Ezekiel 34:26 "I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing."  There is always blessing in showers of rain.  The Word of God refreshes and replenishes us spiritually.  May Silver Rain replenish and refresh you.  This is my prayer for you.

Rita.

Some of the names of the individuals have been changed to protect their privacy.