Showers of Blessing

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And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
Ezekiel 34 v 26

The Lord is the most exalted One. He dwells in Zion – a hill in Jerusalem that dominates the landscape. That peak stands for the eminence and excellence of the Lord. He is the source of all blessings. He will send down a rain of His spirit upon us as a confirmation of our inheritance. He will send abundant rain in due season so that the earth will yield its increase. He will bless us with the dew of Hermon which is a symbol for everlasting life. Blessings are a foretaste of eternal life-a crystallisation of grace and the manifestation of the promises of the Lord contained in His Word. We cannot do anything to achieve or obtain these blessings. We only need to soak in these God-sent blessings as a man soaks in the shower or in a downpour of rain. To soak in blessings is an act of worship, an act of joy, an act of cleansing, an act of strengthening and equipping.

Whatever the Lord blesses us with He does so in generous measure. It might seem slow or inadequate initially from our human perspective. But as we look back we will see the generosity of the Lord in our lives. Jesus said that “ I came that you might have life and life in all its abundance.” We need to be abundant in love for God, love for His Word, abundant in the fruit of the spirit. Each of us is a tree of righteousness in the garden of the Lord. Trees grow in the garden to please the gardener and not seek their own pleasure. The showers of blessing that the Lord sends on us should seep into the soul as water into soil and soften our hearts, make it suitable to bear much fruit.

We are not expected to be will o’ the wisps or weaklings who cling to others for support but mighty oaks of faith and we live in the security of our personal knowledge of God and not on the strength of the props of this world. Earthquakes can shake a mountain but nothing can shake our faith in the Lord. Nothing and no one can make us apprehensive or afraid for there is nothing that the Lord cannot deliver us from . The Lord shall cause the beasts of the wild to cease. The secret of our security , our peace, our strength, our blessings, our success and happiness is that the Lord is with us as Emmanuel. He is also with us as Jireh, as Shepherd, as Nisi or victorious one, as Ebenezer or helper, as Rapha or healer. His name is the mountain we look to for help, for satisfaction and fulfilment. His names are not mere names that mean nothing but a summary of the essence of who God is to us.

Prateep V Philip