Daily Affirmations - Day 4 - Springtime Shall Not Cease: Showers in Season

Day 4: Showers in season

I spread out my hands to You; I thirst for You like a parched land

Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime; it is the Lord who sends the thunderstorms. He gives showers of rain to all people, and plants of the field to everyone (Zechariah 10:1).

Here is sovereign mercy— "I will give them the shower in its season"; ["I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing"] (Ezekiel 34:26).

Is it not sovereign, divine mercy?— for who can say, "I will give them showers," except God? There is only one voice which can speak to the clouds, and bid them [birth] the rain. Who [sends] down the rain upon the earth? Who [scatters] the showers upon the green herb? Do not I, the Lord?

So grace is the gift of God, and is not to be created by man. It is also needed grace. What would the ground do without showers? You may break the clods, you may sow your seeds, but what can you do without the rain?

As absolutely needful is the divine blessing. In vain you labour, until God the plenteous shower bestows, and sends salvation down. Then, it is plenteous grace. "I will send them showers." It does not say, "I will send them drops," but "showers."

So it is with grace. If God gives a blessing, he usually gives it in such a measure that there is not room enough to receive it. Plenteous grace! Ah! we want plenteous grace to keep us humble, to make us prayerful, to make us holy; plenteous grace to make us zealous, to preserve us through this life, and at last to land us in heaven. We cannot do without saturating showers of grace.

Again, it is seasonable grace. "I will cause the shower to come down in his season." What is [your] season this morning? Is it the season of drought? Then that is the season for showers. Is it a season of great heaviness and black clouds? Then that is the season for showers. "As thy days so shall thy strength be."

And here is a varied blessing. "I will give thee showers of blessing." The word is in the plural. All kinds of blessings God will send. All God's blessings go together, like links in a golden chain. If he gives converting grace, he will also give comforting grace. He will send "showers of blessing."

Look up to-day, O parched plant, and open thy leaves and flowers for a heavenly watering.

~ C.H. Spurgeon ~ Morning and Evening

There shall be showers of blessing:

This is the promise of love;

There shall be seasons refreshing,

Sent from the Savior above.

Refrain:

Showers of blessing,

Showers of blessing we need:

Mercy-drops round us are falling,

But for the showers we plead.

There shall be showers of blessing,