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e-Sword- the sword of the LORD with an electronic edge.
Through the Bible Day by Day.(F.B Meyer)
February 24
Morning
"I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall
be showers of blessing." — Eze_34:26
Here is sovereign mercy-"I will give them the shower in its
season." 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 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. "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 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. "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.
Reference Vers
Ezekiel 34:26
make them: Gen_12:2;
Isa_19:24; Zec_8:13, Zec_8:23
my hill: Eze_20:40;
Psa_2:6, Psa_68:16,
Psa_132:14-16, Psa_133:3; Isa_2:2-4,
Isa_56:7; Mic_4:1-2
I will cause: Lev_26:4
shower: Deu_28:12;
Psa_68:9; Isa_32:15,
Isa_32:20, Isa_44:3; Mal_3:10
Extract from
e-Sword- the sword of the LORD with an electronic edge.
Through the Bible Day by Day.(F.B Meyer)
Evening
"O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy upon
Jerusalem? ... And the Lord answered the angel ... with good words and
comfortable words." — Zec_1:12,Zec_1:13
What a sweet answer to an anxious enquiry! This night let us rejoice in
it. O Zion, there are good things in store for thee; thy time of travail shall
soon be over; thy children shall be brought forth; thy captivity shall end.
Bear patiently the rod for a season, and under the darkness still trust in God,
for his love burneth towards thee. God loves the church with a love too deep
for human imagination: he loves her with all his infinite heart. Therefore let
her sons be of good courage; she cannot be far from prosperity to whom God
speaketh "good words and comfortable words." What these comfortable
words are the prophet goes on to tell us: "I am jealous for Jerusalem and
for Zion with a great jealousy." The Lord loves his church so much that he
cannot bear that she should go astray to others; and when she has done so, he
cannot endure that she should suffer too much or too heavily. He will not have
his enemies afflict her: he is displeased with them because they increase her
misery. When God seems most to leave his church, his heart is warm towards her.
History shows that whenever God uses a rod to chasten his servants, he always
breaks it afterwards, as if he loathed the rod which gave his children pain.
"Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear
him." God hath not forgotten us because he smites-his blows are no
evidences of want of love. If this is true of his church collectively, it is of
necessity true also of each individual member. You may fear that the Lord has
passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by
their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case
as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint
he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.
Reference Vers
Zechariah 1:12
the angel: Zec_1:8,
Zec_1:10-11; Exo_23:20-23; Isa_63:9;
Heb_7:25
how: Psa_74:10,
Psa_69:5, Psa_102:13;
Isa_64:9-12; Rev_6:10
thou hast: Zec_7:5;
2Ch_36:21; Jer_25:11-12, Jer_29:10;
Dan_9:2
Referance Vers
Zechariah 1:13
with good: Zec_1:14-16,
Zec_2:4-12, Zec_8:2-8, Zec_8:19;
Isa_40:1-2; Jer_29:10, Jer_30:10-22,
Jer_31:3-14; Amo_9:11-15; Zep_3:14-20
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e-Sword- the sword of the LORD with an electronic edge.
Through the Bible Day by Day.(F.B Meyer)
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