Drench Me God

Maybe while you’ve been enjoying your summer you have happened down to one of our many area lakes. Maybe you’ve even traveled back and forth across one of the many reservoir dams. Have you ever thought about what those dams are holding back?

Bagnell Dam, for instance, sitting astride the Osage River and creating Lake of the Ozarks, holds back 650 billion gallons of water. That’s enough to supply every man, woman, and child on the face of the earth drinking water for over six months! When just one of the twelve floodgates are opened, it has the capacity to let out 101,000 gallons per second! Little wonder that there are warning signs posted on the floodgates to stay back at an appropriate distance. You begin to understand why sirens sound and give warning to those downstream. Were the floodgates to be opened, there would be a surge of water that we could not imagine.

I have to confess that when I’ve read Malachi 3:10 before, I’ve kind of skipped over a rather important word – “floodgates”. God’s promise?

“Test me in this…and see if I will not throw open the floodgates
of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have
room enough for it.” (Malachi 3:10, NIV)

God has incredible, innumerable, and unfathomable blessings that are creating huge reservoirs of blessing in heaven. He stands ready to open His floodgates and completely soak us with so many blessings we can’t possibly hold them all. Imagine standing before that dam of blessing when God opens the doors. What is it God is waiting for?

All God asks for is our trust. In this specific case, God was asking that people trust Him by sacrificing a portion of their money in His honor. While I believe God still desires for us to trust Him in our finances, certainly there are many other areas of life in which God calls us to trust Him. When you do – get ready for the flood of blessings!