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September 24 Daily Devotional

Morning and Evening

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing” (Ezekiel 34:26).

Bible Reading

Ezekiel 34:20–31

Devotional

Here is sovereign grace—“I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.” Is this not sovereign, divine mercy?—for who can say, “I will send down the showers,” except God? There is only one voice that can speak to the clouds and bid them to produce the rain. Who sends down the rain on the earth? Who scatters the showers on the green herb? Do not I, the Lord? So grace is the gift of God; we do not create it.

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? God’s blessing is just as absolutely needful. You work in vain unless God bestows the plenteous shower, and sends salvation down.

Then, it is plenteous grace. “I will send down the 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 enough room to receive it. Plenteous grace! Ah! we need plenteous grace to keep us humble; we need plenteous grace to make us prayerful; we need plenteous grace to make us holy; we need plenteous grace to make us zealous; we need plenteous grace 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 send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.” What is your season right now? 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 your days, so shall your strength be” (Dt. 33:25).

And here is a varied grace. “I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessings.” The word is in the plural. God will send all kinds of blessings. 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 today, O parched plant; open your leaves and flowers for a heavenly watering.

[February 24, morning]

Extracted from C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening (public domain), language modernized by Larry E. Wilson.

 

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