Weather Watching Again

Luke 12:14-34

We are very fickle creatures aren’t we? When it doesn’t rain we cry out for it. We got some beautiful rain and we were able to grow some feed. We then decided to have it made into hay. And as often happens it just keeps raining and we find ourselves saying “not again”. It seems that once you start to make things like hay it starts to rain. When I spoke to an old time hay maker about the rain making things difficult their comment was “You don’t realise how often it rains until you start to make hay”.

Of course the same happens in a drought. You don’t realise how long you have gone without rain until you really need it. The problem is of course that if you don’t get rain in the first place there is no feed to make hay with. The thing is that if you don’t need something you don’t notice that it’s there. I think it’s called taking things for granted.

We take so much for granted. Our health, friends, family and here in Australia we take our wealth and freedom for granted. Yes I know that we cannot go around being aware of every little thing and saying thanks all the time, we would get nothing done otherwise. Quite often though we are brought up short and made to think about things that we have been taking for granted. Regardless of what it is, if we have it in this life it can be taken away from us in an instant. The rich fool took his life, health and wealth for granted and realised too late that it was going to be taken away from him. The only things that will last forever are those things with eternal value.