The Rains Will Come

Dear lovely people,

That Friday morning, Jenkins got up early, went out of his house and looked at the sky for a while. He went in and got his umbrella before heading for the usual morning prayers. On the way, people wondered why Jenkins would be going to church with an umbrella in January knowing that in January, it is the heart of the dry season when all you see around you is covered with dust, you see dryness everywhere and thick layers of dust on the roads. The prolonged droughts for the last two years had made things even worst.

Jenkins, very unconcerned about the inquisitive eyes, hummed his way to church. That same morning in church, the ever smiling Pastor led the congregation in prayer for rain, and started his message. Halfway through the service, they heard the storm clouds thundering, rolling in. Believe you me, the rural congregation was filled with subsistence farmers and rain was essential to their livelihood. When they heard the storm roll in, the Pastor, stopped his preaching and began to sing. Soon, they heard the sound of rain, torrents of it in the middle of a long dry season when nobody probably with the exception of Jenkins, expected rain. Everybody started crying in their pews. God had heard and answered their prayer. Everybody who saw Jenkins with his umbrella before the service that morning turned to his direction in tears of joy.

Can you imagine being in that church house when the rain started coming down, knowing God Almighty had just granted your request? When Jenkins was asked latter why he took his umbrella to church that morning, he smiled and said “Praying for rain is one thing. Taking your umbrella with you is another. The bible tells us that faith without work is dead. ”

As you set out to work for your success armed with your dreams, hopes, plans, desire, NEVER forget to take along your umbrella of motivation, focus, resoluteness, determination, courage, positive mental attitude, consistency, drive and most importantly, believe in God. As a matter of fact, the rains will come when you least expect, the torrential rains of slander, dejection, demotivation, backstabbing, negativity, failure will fall on you. Hailstones of treachery, patchiness, blind-rocking, disillusionment etc. will come at you like projectiles and if you don’t believe in God, you are like an umbrella with one piece missing, you will get wet.  

If you have your umbrella with you at such times, you will never give up on your dreams, you will prevail in the middle of all aridity and you will keep trusting in God even when you seem to be falling into a bottomless abyss. People thought Jenkins was absurd to be moving around with an umbrella in the middle of a drought. What they did not know was his trust and faith in God for rains that morning. People thought Sarah in the Bible had gone crazy believing God for a son at 90 and I am sure you would have considered David as downright stupid to take on Goliath backed by an army spread out in the valley like grains of sand on the seashore.

When you do the right things at the right time and believe God, the rest is left to Him. When you believe God, you do the impossible, you take your umbrella with you because you know the rains will come whether you like it or not.