Forty Days and Forty Nights it rained. Then they waited. This is the first of many times the number forty is used in the Bible. There are several concepts associated with the number according to scholars: Completion of God's Promises, Trials and Testing, or transformation going from one thing to another. All of these can be seen but I would note that all of them have one thing in common after the 40 days things/ people are different.
Also, the forty days come to an end eventually. This is something that we tend to forget when we are in the middle of a problem, this will end. It will. I know there have been times I have felt that way and I know many others but finally the forty days, the forty years (as Israel spent in the wilderness) will end. Take hope the trials don't last forever.
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