Shower of Questions

(This is an encore presentation of a devo first published on February 27, 2007)

"How can I come before You?
What worthy gift can I bring?
What glorious feast could I offer?
What songs of majesty sing?
Lift  this heart of sadness into gladness by your peace,
Before I can come before You, You come to me"

Ever Walk With Me Lord by Peter Mayer

Four questions in a row. They echo some of the interrogative statements in Micah 6:6-8.

Peter adds three other questions in this song at other points:

"Where is the path that leads homeward?"

"How can I hear when You call?"

"When at last grace has found me, will I recognize it at all?"

You might want to "sprinkle" some of this song on yourself by clicking here.

If you have ever been out walking, running or cycling when it started to rain and then become a downpour, you know what it's like to be soaked to the bone. These questions do the same. Each one is capable of being a month-long if not a lifelong course in following God. Collectively, all added up together they can provide such a shower that it's hard to see one's hand right in front of one's face.

Lent is a season to sing in the shower and also walk, talk and think in the shower of questions. It's a time to stretch and pray. It's a journey from ashes to alleluias. One doesn't go through these forty days and forty nights without having some questions, doubt, detours, wrong turns and hopefully u-turns of repentance.

Peter's hopeful message is about the love of God and conversely being children of God.

It's natural to have questions as we go in search of the answers.

But, let there be no question about it, God is calling you and wants you to know grace and peace.

I love the following quote from Isaiah 45:8:

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Shower, O heavens, from above,
      and let the skies rain down righteousness;
      let the earth open, that salvation may spring up,
      and let it cause righteousness to sprout up also;
      I the LORD have created it. 

Experience some "shower power" today!

rtg