I was watching the news this week and the weather was so nice they barely had anything to report about. With no real disasters, they were bored, so they have begun to report on this year’s El Nino. El Nino, (otherwise known as “The Nino”) , is a warming of the mid-pacific that influences our weather.   Of course with all the concern about human caused Global Warming, everything should be downright catastrophic, much to the news readers delight. In the good category California might get a lot of much needed rain.   According to the Office of the Washington State Climatologist (yes we actually have one of those) we have increased chances of above normal temperatures and below normal rainfall. In other words we will probably have a warmer and dryer winter.   So if you hate cold weather and like it warm and dry, you might just have a great winter.

I wonder, if we had a model for our spiritual weather what it would be predicting? Would newscasters come on and say things like “Well it looks like the drought is going to continue” or “ By looking at over all spiritual temperature, we think we are in a Spiritual El Nino.” We should expect a mild dry season. It will be comfortable and not disconcertingly wet.” Are you in a Spiritual El Nino?

We need the Holy Spirit to Rain Down!   We are tired of the comfortable dry season, and ready for the winter rains that fill the reservoirs of our souls, the spring rains that bring the growth to our spirit! Holy Spirit rain down!

As surely as the sun rises,

   like the spring rains that water the earth.” Hosea 6:3

Pray for rain!

See you at church!

Pastor Chris