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Are you a cloud without water?

10/21/2024

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Real Dudes,
​On occasion, if I see a beautifully colored sky, and or unusually shaped clouds, then I’ll take a picture of them. Call me weird, but I truly love looking at the sky and don’t want to forget some of those images. For me, these are reminders of God’s beauty ever before me.

For some, clouds have a different meaning to them. Clouds to them are a potential relief from a drought. At times their hopes are met, and other times their hopes are dashed. Such clouds looked so promising and yet they were completely empty…they provided no relief and left the hopeful parched, dry, and disappointed. How are clouds described in Jude 12? 
  • Jude 12 (NKJV) 12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;
These clouds that are without water in verse 12 are in reference to the apostates within the church. They promised spiritual life, but what did they leave as they passed over, by, or through the church? Again, take a look at nature, what happens if clouds constantly pass over a crop and provide no rain? Inevitably the crop will dry out and die. 
Men, are you in a church that is drying out and dying? From the outside it looks promising, but in all reality it is empty, leaving the regular attenders and visitors spiritually malnourished/deprived/dead. What about you? What would others say about you? Or how would the Lord describe you? Would you be described as a cloud without water? What life are you withholding from others? Or are you a person that provides what is promised? Men, be in God’s word, so that you can be filled with spiritual nutrition that can then be poured into others that God allows to cross your path. Speak life into them. Show them how they can be truly filled. So, I ask you one more time…are you a cloud without water? If you’d claim to be a cloud with water, then what does that look like in your life and in your church/community? What genuine and godly relief are you providing a people in need?
Practicing His Presence, 
Nate

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    Nate Smith is a husband, a father of 6 girls, grandpa to 3 granddaughters and one grandson, a police and fire chaplain, a pastor, and has a passion to see men grow in Christ.

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