Psalm 135

"Whatever the Lord pleases he does,
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and all deeps.
He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth,
he makes lightnings for the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses."
Psalm 135:6-7

The psalmist reminds us that God will do what God will do and I for one have a tough time accepting this.
Let me explain. I don't believe God is some fickle deity who randomly does stuff just to mess with us. No, I believe that God works in basically orderly ways and that when the Bible says that God brings the rain on the just and unjust alike that it is true. What bothers me is that I'm not 'special enough' for God to intervene for my convenience. Why does it rain when I don't want it to rain? Why does it get hot when I want it to be cool and cold when I want it to be warm?
It's not just in the natural phenomenon that God seems to do this. It happens in other areas of my (our) lives as well. Why does one person get sick and not another? Why does one business get into trouble even though it has done everything in an ethical manner and another flourish through some shady practices? Why?
Maybe it is because God has this way of reminding us that we are not him. It is so easy to go from believing we are unique, special, and loved in God's eyes to feeling entitled to receive more than others. I don't believe that God does thing to keep us in our place, but I do believe that everything God does has the potential to draw us toward him if we look for him in the midst of it all.
So where in your rain storm can you see God at work?