On Monday all the stress and tension of weeks and weeks of dry heat was relieved in a night and a day of rain that brought almost eight inches of water to our rein gauge in a steady downpour. The temperature plummeted. It was as if the growing things sighed a sigh of release and contentment. People barely complained of the inconvenience of the rain in the pleasure of the relief.

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.” (Isaiah 44;3-4

Thousands of years ago the prophet of God spoke to his people about the character of their God words that evoked His qualities to people who could recognize and understand the refreshment and renewal of rain on the earth. In spite of the colossal changes in civilization since these words were written, our own generation can glimpse the character of our God and the thirsty spirits of our spiritual ancestors in this passage. It is a link to both them and our Savior God for us.

“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”

(Isaiah 55:10-11)

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks this water (from the well) will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life, (John 4:13), and again:

“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” (John7:37)

Nothing could be more alive than the earth that has just been visited with fresh rain. Nothing, that is,except the soul who has believed in Christ and witnessed to that belief.

Love in Him,

Prue