Rain
Pastor Justin Smidstra of the First PRC in Holland, Michigan reflects theologically on God's sovereign control over rain and weather as a manifestation of His providential care and power. Through extensive biblical exposition drawing primarily from Job, Psalms, and Deuteronomy, the article contemplates how God's gift of rain reveals His majesty and should evoke gratitude and thanksgiving from His people. The piece encourages readers to recognize God's sustaining providence in the ordinary yet miraculous provision of water for all creation.
Among the great, unsearchable, and marvelous works of Almighty God, which we can so easily overlook, is His work of giving rain upon the earth and sending waters upon the fields (Job 5:9-10). The King of heaven and earth rules over the mighty waters. He has both appointed the boundaries of the sea and "made a decree for the rain" (Job 28:26). He makes the dark rain clouds His chariot and walks upon the wings of the storm wind. "For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the...
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