This is a phrase taken from one of my favorite movies and one of my favorite songs. It has a double meaning.
Firstly, it means that we should prepare for God to bless us. We should plant "seeds" and prepare the "crops." We should live expectantly and expect God to move. If you know that a tornado is coming your way and your home is in the center of that storm, will you not take precautions to make sure you and your family is safe and ready for it? You may not know the exact effects of the tornado, but you would be foolish to not take some precautions.
It is the same with God. If you expect God to do great things, you need to prepare for God to do great things! You need to live expectantly and do your part so that God can just bless you.
Believe me when I say that He will and it will be more than you could have ever hoped or imagined!
Secondly, it means that no matter what God gives you, you will choose to praise Him. Some of us just don't like rain at all. It is dreary and we don't like it. However, without rain plants could not grow and the earth would be brown and dry versus green and healthy.
This is how life is. Sometimes we face storms that bring us to our knees and shake our faith like nothing has ever done before. In those times, we can take comfort in knowing that God is nurturing us and helping us grow.
We don't serve just a "fair weather" God. He doesn't disappear when the storms and trials of life come, He walks with us! God is also not a genie. We cannot praise Him in the good times, but curse Him in the bad or forget about Him in the good times, but cry out to Him in the bad. We should praise God whether life is going really well; we should also praise Him when everything seems to be falling apart.
We do not walk alone in the storms of life and if it can bring God glory and grow my faith.....well, Jesus, bring the rain!
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