HEALING RAIN

i never really gave it much thought, but what do you think of when you hear the song Healing Rain? You know, "Healing rain is falling down, Healing rain is falling down, let it rain, let it rain." i Guess it is about Jesus the great healer. Pray and be healed. Jesus has saved us, healed us.

But i got a whole new meaning the other day when i heard lesson 64 of the Romans study. Remember the story of Lot and his wife and family? How God spared them from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? The story is in Genesis 19 if you want to read it. i am most interested in verses 24-26. " Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt."

It is becoming so clear to me that Jesus saved us from ourselves. From our sinful nature. The world needs Jesus. His is our way out. He is the way the truth and the life, amen. Lot, his wife and two daughters found favor with God. Because they were not living in their sin nature even as they were surrounded by it, God spared them from the cleansing from the earth of the iniquity of the cities. The cleansing fire and brimstone that God sent from heaven. They were told not to look back or they too would be consumed. But for some reason, i think it was the sin nature, Lots wife looked back, perhaps yearning for what once was, and she was turned into a pillar of Salt. Her name forever blotted out of the Book of Life.

The same thing is happening today. People are being consumed by the temptations of the evil lusts of the sinful nature. The unsaved continue to sin and the professed saved go back, but to what? To a life without Jesus? An eternity separated from God? An eternity in the pits of Hell? No way!! Do not look back. In our lives we will have trials, give thanks. Our trials, those cleansing fires, they burn off the impurities of who we are in Christ. They strengthen us for the battle. They give us strength. We have been baptized unto death with Jesus, we have inherited the cross, take it up daily and follow Him, no matter the cost. Amen. All glory to God.

i believe we are in the last days and that the Holy Ghost is talking about today when He speaks in 1 Timothy 4:1-2. "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. Speaking lies in hypocrisy having their conscience seared with a hot iron."

We see all around us how even the believers sensitivity and fear of God is diminished. In pulpits everywhere the leaders are falling, preaching God and living for the Devil, and their flocks are supporting them even in their wickedness. It is crazy. Satan is overpowering the weak. The believers that are not armed with the whole armor of God, truth and righteousness, peace and faith, salvation and the Word of God, praying always, (Ephesians 6) are leaving themselves vulnerable to the attack of the enemy. The world needs Jesus. We need to stand strong and to bring Jesus to the world. We need to be ready always with the word for the lost unbeliever, and for the believer who is deceived. The world needs Jesus. The world needs the believers to stay in the word, sharpen their swords and to fight always to bring them Jesus. The battle is great and the battle line is only clear when you know the word. Do not be deceived. Amen.