Rain.....

It has been raining for several days now, of and on, cloudy, cool temperatures..but rain , sometimes in torrents enough you wake you in the dead of night, .....other times softly, ever so softly, you hardly know that is is there, except for the dampness on the ground..

It is refreshing, bring moisture for growth, coolness for refreshment, clean smelling earth and trees.   It can be good for the farmers/ranchers or it can spoil the crops on the ground...making mush of the strawberries, cut hay, .......it is trouble to the golf tournaments, flying shows or open air markets....lawn keepers.....

God promised rain on the righteous and I righteous, rain for crops,  rain of fire for judgment....., replenishing ......rain for a variety of reasons

Rainbows for promise .....

So,as we grumble or rejoice in the rain....it is there for a purpose.....for growth , in many areas of our lives ......

Leviticus 26:4

I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their season.

....Deuteronomy 11:14

then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil.

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Deuteronomy 28:12a

The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands.

Job 5:10

He provides rain for the earth; he sends water on the countryside.

Psalm 147:8

He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills.

Isaiah 30:23

He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.

Joel 2:23

Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

Hebrews 6:7

Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.

Deuteronomy 32:2

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

 Have you ever thought that these drops of rain may have  been in the mixture that fell on noah or Elijah ?  The rain is used over and over on the earth, going from place to place...it was formed thousands of years ago and we just use it over and. Over agin....recycling at its ultimate.....