Brain Cloud

There is a line out of the movie Joe Verses The Volcano that I love to use when I just can't seem to think straight. The main character, Joe, is a hypochondriac who continues to go to doctors until one finally plays to his fears and tells him that he has a Brain Cloud; which, of course, is made up. So whenever I'm having a moment, I jokingly say that I have a brain cloud.

However, as I was reading today, I found a very interesting passage by Oswald Chambers in My Utmost for His Highest that has me rethinking this little phrase. The following is most of the devotional from his July 29th entry:

 "Behold, He cometh with clouds." Revelation 1:7

In the Bible clouds are always connected with God. Clouds are those sorrows or sufferings or providences, within or without our personal lives, which seem to dispute the rule of God. It is by those very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were no clouds, we should have no faith. "The clouds are but the dust of our Father's feet." The clouds are a sign that He is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow and bereavement and suffering are the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near without clouds, He does not come in clear shining.


It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials: through every cloud He brings, He wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in the cloud is to simplify our belief until our relationship to Him is exactly that of a child - God and my own soul, other people are shadows. Until other people become shadows, clouds and darkness will be mine every now and again. Is the relationship between myself and God getting simpler than ever it has been?


There is a connection between the strange providences of God and what we know of Him, and we have to learn to interpret the mysteries of life in the light of our knowledge of God. Unless we can look the darkest, blackest fact full in the face without damaging God's character, we do not yet know Him..." (Emphasis mine)

How blessed I am that my Father has clouded my mind with His presence! I only pray that I will stay that way always. 

I implore you to ask the Spirit to reveal to you today if there are any areas where the "darkest, blackest fact" may "damage God's character" in your mind and heart. If so, be honest with God about it for the healing of yourself. He already knows. Then spend some time getting to know and trust the God who loves and cherishes you so much. Remember: He is the essence of trustworthy.