Proverbs 25:14
“Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.”
Imagine a bone-dry Texas summer. The ground cracks like old pottery. Cattle stand around water troughs that echo when they drink. Then, far off, you spot them, big, billowy clouds stacking up on the horizon. Your heart leaps. You can almost smell the rain coming. You tell the kids, “Grab the buckets; it’s gonna pour!” Minutes stretch into hours. The clouds swagger across the sky, full of sound and fury, then drift away without dropping a single drop. Nothing! Just hot wind and broken hope.
We’ve all met walking weather systems, people who thunder about the blessings they’re going to pour out, the help they’re going to give, the love they’re going to show…and then nothing. The check never arrives. The visit never happens. The promise evaporates. Something inside the waiting heart shrivels a little more.
God calls us to be a different kind of sky. He wants us to be the gentle, steady rain that shows up when it says it will. He wants us to keep our promises. That’s the fragrance our Father loves.
Today, let one promise you’ve made become water in someone’s desert. Follow through. Show up.
I’m Lonnie Davis, and these are thoughts worth thinking.