Breathing Rain

Presuming the preeminence of God and His Word over all, I can’t think of anything better in this world, anything that renews my spirit and soul, more than rain. No matter what it is you are doing, rain changes perspective, and not in some lame intellectual way, but in a base, underlying manner.

It is like food for the soul. I think the rain replenishes us as a living part of this planet, just as it does everything else. Rain even seems to have a refreshing, cleansing effect on the manmade stuff of this world.

God’s ways are perfect. At one time or another, we all lose sight of this. Rain restores some primal understanding of who God is, and who we truly are in comparison. Perspective.

I hope it’s raining where you are right now.

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"I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit." -- Leviticus 26:4

"Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm ... " -- Job 38:25 ...
"Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?" -- Job 38:28

" ... the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel." -- Psalms 68:8 ...

"He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills." -- Psalms 147:8

"You heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness grow with it; I, the LORD, have created it." -- Isaiah 45:8

"Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, O LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this." -- Jeremiah 14:22

"When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses." -- Jeremiah 51:16

"Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone." -- Zechariah 10:1

" ... that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." -- Matthew 5:45

"Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops." -- James 5:17