Showers in Season

Streams in the Desert: January 8

What is your season today? Are you experiencing a season of drought? If so, then it is the season for showers. Are you going through a season of great heaviness with dark clouds? Then that too is the season for showers. "Your strength will equal your days" (Deut. 33:25). "I will send....showers of blessing." Notice that the word showers is plural.

God will send all kinds of blessings. And all His blessings go together like links in a golden chain. If He gives you saving grace, He will also give you comforting grace. God will send "showers of blessings." Look up today, you who are dried and withered plants. Open your leaves and flowers to receive God's heavenly watering. Charles Spurgeon

You, O Lord, can transform my thorn into a flowers. And I do want my thorn to be transformed into a flower. Job received sunshine after the rain, but was the rain all wasted? Job wants to know, and I want to know, if the rain is related to the sunshine. Only You can tell me -- Your cross can tell me. You have crowned Your sorrow. Let this be my crown, O Lord. I will only triumph once I have learned the radiance of the rain. George Mathison

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What a great word of encouragement!

Father, just as George Mathison prayed, transform my thorn into a flower. Help me to see that in the dark seasons You still provide showers of blessing...like this daily devotional. Lord, I don't like the rain in this life, but I also don't want to miss the blessings of this time. Rather than living for when it's over, help me to trust You more, look for the blessings now and be thankful in and for all things. Thank You for meeting me in the quite moments with words of comfort. Thank You that You don't leave me alone. You are slowly transforming me. But I see there is still so much work left to be done. I'm glad You're bigger than all this!