This week we’ve been revisiting devotional blogs from last summer. This one is from Prayerful Pondering by Pat Luffman Rowland. Click the title below to read at source.
Thinking on the Rain
“Drip down, O heavens, from above, And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And righteousness spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it” Isaiah 45:6 (NKJV).
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A grey cloud hovers overhead. It is the promise of drink for dry ground and the uplifted faces of blooming things; the promise of water enough for birds to bathe in a forsaken fount. The grey cloud covers the sun and provides shade and a cooler day for man and animal alike.
Thunder grumbles and the rain comes, spreading its kindness over the day’s needs. The earth smells fresh and colors deepen as flowers and grass are clad with glistening drops of rain. The world seems to slow a bit and I can’t hold back a smile, for I love a rainy day!
It occurs to me that the simplest things color my life with happiness. Watching showers march upon the ground and sidewalks, seeing a bird wash insects from his wings in a new pool of water. Pondering the buds of roses about to break forth into full bloom and how their deep drink of rain will lend a hand to the process.
I think of how rain promenades on ponds, lakes, rivers, and even the sea. The larger the body of water, the more mystical a rain appears in its stroll. What sight is grander than the downpour of heaven joining waters of the yawning deep? What vision sweeter than blooming things with lifted faces catching a morning shower? What image more right than birds making use of a shallow basin with its fill of afternoon rains?
Lord, I long to linger in the splendor of how you’ve made things, to think on the beauty of nature without man’s interference. Where could I go and pay a price for something as wondrous as this? You give so generously of all you have fashioned; let me not miss it. It is a demonstration and continuing promise of Your love. I bow to you with grateful heart.
“For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God”(Hebrews 6:7 NKJV).
We’ve covered rain before at C201, check out this 2013 excerpt from Charles Spurgeon, Parallels Between Grace and Rain.
A few days ago we ran a post from ThinkTheology.org and days later, I continued tracking with them. Here is the next post in the series on Peter’s confession: The Revelation of the Messiah (and What it Truly Means to be His Follower).
We don’t always make it back to every site visited the year before. If you have a particular verse you’d like to examine close up, consider Bible Exposition Commentary by Dr. Grant C. Richison. Choose a book of the Bible from the menu in the top right — it’s mostly NT books covered — and then it will prompt you to go to a particular voice.
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