Umbrella

This might sound silly, but I think that umbrellas are wicked cool.  I love walking around in the rain without getting wet.  Maybe this is because I am also one of those people that likes to watch thunderstorms from a front porch.

With this in mind, when I came across an analogy about how God is like the umbrella of our lives i gave it another read.  The book talked about how we need to have God covering all the other things and areas in our lives rather than being just another piece of the puzzle that makes us who we are.

This in itself might not seem like it is too Earth shaking.  I have heard that God needs to be in everything a ton of times and I have preached it 1,000 times too.  I have always had this image of God being the foundation that everything rests on (which I still hold to be true).  But, I think that we need a “God Umbrella” too.  We might not notice it when things are going well and school, sports, dance and work are fine, however when it starts to rain we can enjoy the drops around us without feeling like we are drowning in the storms of life.  With God covering us we can see through the storms because the rain isn’t dripping into our eyes and we will not loose hope in the middle of adversity because we know God is surrounding us if we have a firm foundation and covering of God.

When have you felt like God was covering your or protecting you?