Depending on what age you may be, your thought of windmills may be different. When my grandparents were coming out west I imagine they had a certain thought of what windmills looked like. If they saw the ones of today they probably wouldn’t even know what it was. I imagine a barn and next to it a wooden windmill. The windmill would be used to pump water, which made it so much easier than pumping by hand. There would usually be a trough not far away for watering the cattle.
Things have changed a lot in what a windmill looks like but the idea is the same. Now a days it is used more to utilizes the wind to create electricity. Of course, the more wind the more power that is generated.
The wind that is created for the windmills reminds me of the trials and temptations that come into a Christian’s life. The trials that come actually create a good thing, if we allow it.
It reminds me of the verse that says, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” 1 Corinthians 10:30. I don’t know about you but at times when I am going through a trial, I am tempted to wonder how I can bear it.
As I was watching these windmills it clicked for me. Just like the windmill produces more power when there is more wind, our lives, when we have more trials our character becomes more refined so that we produce more power to go forth and do the work that Christ has for us to do. It is only through the trials that we even have “electricity” to supply to people. The more trials we have the more power God supplies to us. We may feel we can’t handle it, and we can’t on our own. But it is the temptations and trials, the Lord helps us through, which give us the ability to reach out to others. We all have something we can give because the trials have given us something to share that nothing else can.
Dear Father,
It is not always easy to say thank You for the trials. I do thank You because I know that the trials are there for us to learn to trust You no matter what, so that we can produce an “electricity” to benefit others around me. Continue to guide and give us the power to overcome all that comes our way.
In Jesus Name,
Amen
Let’s allow the trials to produce “electricity” in us so we can be a blessing to others.
Love you all.
Do you have a story about an old windmill? Maybe it was from your grandparents’ farm. Share your reminisce story about windmills.