From the Pastor’s Heart
From the Pastor’s Heart
April Showers Bring May Flowers
“April showers bring May flowers” is an old saying that we have heard growing up. There is a spiritual lesson in there for us as well. When we go through the “showers” of life, there is growth in us that can develop us spiritually, like the flowers in May. No one likes to go out when it’s raining. Many fun activities have to be postponed or canceled. Rainy days also affect many people’s moods. A rainy day is a good metaphor for our challenges and struggles spiritually. We grow the most when we are totally dependant upon God. Sadly, most of us only get to that point after we have tried everything else that we can.
But like the May flowers that unfold when in touch with the warmth of God’s love, we grow after a season of challenge, despair, rainy days, you get the idea.
The most encouraging books of the Bible were written from dungeons and on the run in the wilderness with danger and tension bearing down on the author. It is from those places that the authors of those books of the Bible were inspired by God to encourage followers of Jesus for centuries.
May all your “showers” bring forth spiritual “flowers.”
This May 16th we will say thank you and good bye to Rob Sandford, the ODU Baptist Campus Minister. Rob has the record of being the longest tenured Baptist Campus minister in the United States, which pretty much means, the WORLD. Rob has been to preach at Azalea many times and we have been blessed by his time of leadership. You are cordially invited to the Baptist Student Union at the Old Dominion University from 6-8 PM on May 16th.
See you at “the Sunday morning place to be”…grateful to God rain or shine!
Pastor John