Abundance of Rain Conclusion

3. Fire and rain

There are other lessons we need to learn from the events upon Mount Carmel. We need to know that in our Christian lives we need both fire and rain. Many times we want the refreshing rain but we do not want the cleansing of fire. In order for new life to begin in the forests there is the need for both fire and rain. Fire clears away the rubbish while rain nurtures the new life.

When the fire came on Mount Carmel only the people that witnessed the fire and responded to the judgment benefited but when the rain came everyone benefited. Not only those that repented and acknowledged God to be God but even Ahab and those in his household benefited. So it is with Christians who have been filled with the Holy Spirit. When a Christian is filled with the Spirit he or she will bring refreshment upon the world around them.

The Christian is instructed to pray for rain. Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone. Zechariah 10:1. When we are obedient then even those around us, believers and nonbelievers will benefit.