Showers that Bless

I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.  The trees will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.

Isn’t this a great promise?

There’s really nothing better in nature than when seasonal showers fall.  The ground gets a good soaking, cracks come back together, and plants get their nourishment and prepare to grow when the sun appears again.  These are showers of blessing.

That’s the kind of showers that come from the Lord. 

Not only will fruit be produced  and crops abound, when showers come, but because of the abundance – the people feel secure.  When they thirst for rain and it comes, they know the Lord has sent the rain and rescued them from certain death.

I know that it takes drought to make us thirst for the Lord.  If we are constantly in a season of growth, we tend to forget our need for Him and fill our time and thoughts with other things.  But when we thirst, he has promised to come and drench us with the rain that only he sends.

If rain is falling too hard, too fast, and flooding you to where you feel as though you’re drowning – those ARE NOT showers of blessing.  God doesn’t send anything in our lives to destroy us.

God is interested in setting us free to worship him, with our mouths open wide, our hands lifted high, receiving the steady rain that brings refreshing – those ARE showers of blessing!