"Bring The Rain" by Mercy Me
I can count a million times
People asking me how I
Can praise You with all that I've gone through
The question just amazes me
Can circumstances possibly
Change who I forever am in You
Maybe since my life was changed
Long before these rainy days
It's never really ever crossed my mind
To turn my back on you, oh Lord
My only shelter from the storm
But instead I draw closer through these times
So I pray
Bring me joy, bring me peace
Bring the chance to be free
Bring me anything that brings You glory
And I know there'll be days
When this life brings me pain
But if that's what it takes to praise You
Jesus, bring the rain
I am Yours regardless of
The dark clouds that may loom above
Because You are much greater than my pain
You who made a way for me
By suffering Your destiny
So tell me what's a little rain
So I pray
Holy, holy, holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
James 1:12—Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.
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My thoughts on this song:
Right now, I am a grade four teacher at Abbotsford Christian School. I recently taught my students about how God’s ways are not bound by human customs, rules, and expectations. I taught them about God’s plan—a plan that we don’t understand—and how he can use anybody to fulfill it. God has shown this in a few ways to me in the past bit, so I figured I would share something about that.
Last year, I had the privilege of being on maternity leave. I also had the privilege of writing some Bible curriculum on the book of Job.
This was a great little job in my opinion, but I also recognize it as an opportunity for God to talk to me about something I needed to hear at that moment. Job is a character who had a lot of bad stuff happen to him. While his friends try to find something in his life—some sin he committed—to blame it on, Job unswervingly believes that he has not sinned and can’t understand why God would do this to him. And through it all, he never curses God or speaks badly of him. In the end, God pretty much tells Job and his friends that his ways are not for us to explain or even understand. Our job is to just trust him and his goodness. We are not called to understand God’s ways or his plans but to participate in them as God calls us—even if that means losing everything and still standing firm in Him as Job did. Following his trials, God goes on to bless Job more than his previous years.
I recall that my maternity leave started with some big disappointments for both myself and my family, things that I found difficult to understand. We ALL have things in life that we can’t understand. And that cause us to question God’s plan and even his goodness.
Mercy Me sings a song called, Bring The Rain. One part in that song says,
I can count a million times People asking me how I can
praise You with all that I've gone through . . .
Bring me joy, bring me peace, Bring the chance to be free
Bring me anything that brings You glory
And I know there'll be days
When this life brings me pain
But if that's what it takes to praise You Jesus, bring the rain
Each and every day I am trying to challenge myself to really live out the line, “bring me anything that brings you glory,” and the last part, “And I know there will be days when this life brings me pain, but if that’s what it takes to praise you, Jesus bring the rain.”
In James 1:12, it says, “Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.” Psalm 145 tells us that, “the Lord is gracious and compassionate . . . and rich in love .The Lord is good to all. . . The Lord is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made. He upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down . . . he fulfills the desires of those who fear him, he hears their cry and saves them.”
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