Morning, February 24<\/p>\n
Scripture: \u201cI will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.\u201d(Ezekiel 34:26)<\/p>\n
Here is sovereign mercy\u2014\u201cI will give them the shower in its season.\u201d Is it not sovereign, divine mercy?\u2014for who can say, \u201cI will give them showers,\u201d except God? There is only one voice which can speak to the clouds, and bid them beget the rain. Who sendeth down the rain upon the earth? Who scattereth 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. \u201cI will send them showers.\u201d It does not say, \u201cI will send them drops,\u201d but \u201cshowers.\u201d 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. \u201cI will cause the shower to come down in his season.\u201d What is thy 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. \u201cAs thy days so shall thy strength be.\u201d And here is a varied blessing. \u201cI will give thee showers of blessing.\u201d 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 \u201cshowers of blessing.\u201d Look up to-day, O parched plant, and open thy leaves and flowers for a heavenly watering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Morning, February 24<\/p>\n
Scripture: \u201cI will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.\u201d(Ezekiel 34:26)<\/p>\n
Here is sovereign mercy\u2014\u201cI will give them the shower in its season.\u201d Is it not sovereign, divine mercy?\u2014for who can say, \u201cI will give them showers,\u201d except God? There is only one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-43212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning","tag-morning-by-morning","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}