LOOK UP TODAY, O PARCHED PLANT
By Charles Spurgeon

I will send down showers in season. There will be showers of blessing. Ezekiel 34 verse 26

Here is sovereign grace. I will send down showers. Is it not sovereign, divine mercy? For who can say, I will send down showers except God? There is only one voice which can speak to the clouds and bid them beget the rain. Who sends down the rain upon the earth? Who scatters the showers upon the green herb? Do not I, the Lord,

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 labor, until God bestows the plenteous shower And sends the needed grace down.

Then it is plenteous grace. I will send down 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 need plenteous grace to keep us humble, to make us prayerful, to make us holy, 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 send down showers in season. What is your 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. I will send down showers in season.

And here is a varied grace. I will give you 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 your leaves and flowers
For a heavenly watering.

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