Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Showers of Blessings

Walking through the tulips Mt Vernon by Dee Kamp
 
Showers of Blessings

Sometimes there will be your ordinary, and expected showers here on the Olympic Peninsula, and other times there are those that are rather surprising and extraordinary.

“I will bless my people and their homes around my holy hill. And in the proper season I will send the showers they need. There will be showers of blessing.” Ezekiel 34:26

When you live on the west side of the Olympic Mountains you soon learn you may be living in the rain shadows of these great mountains. Not long ago as I climbed into my car on a sunny day at home, I drove a mere three miles down the road to be amazed at a down pour so heavy I had to slow down and speed up the windshield wipers!

It’s rather surprising and extraordinary every time this happens. And we often find people from out of the area scratching their heads wondering what’s going on. Simple to God, puzzling and surprising to us all.

The prophet Ezekiel described an extraordinary downpour-a promise of a shower of blessings like the Israelites had not seen before. A rain so refreshing that it would produce more crops, and trees to grow good fruit but more than that, it was a season of refreshing for them, a time to draw them back closer to God once again.

That’s still what God does for us today. He blesses His followers with showers of blessings to refresh us and to draw us into a closer relationship with Him. Those showers of blessings are sometimes great or they may trickle upon us one by one, always catching us surprise.

 So let us watch closely each day for those unexpected splashes of joy that may come our way, and share them too that others are blessed.

 Great or small, in all seasons of our lives there will come from the God who sees our needs, showers of blessings to reminds us, “You are mine, I am near, and I will always care for you.”

Watch for those showers of blessings

They’re a reminder its God’s promise of love;

His perfect timing so surprising and refreshing

Sent from our Savior in heaven above.

 

“Showers of Blessings by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© February 17, 2016

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