Friday morning as we drove into the Hill Country and neared San Saba we saw an incredible transformation. Last May when we left this area it was dusty dry. One man told me he watched a squirrel kicking up dust as it ran! The rains came. Not just one but several. Empty, cracked stock tanks now held water and some migrating ducks. Cattle once again roamed the green fields. It was like a different world. I was awestruck at this sight. It had happened, not through fertilizer, or tractors, or even irrigation systems. It had come about because of one single gift from the heavens... RAIN! No man has ever discovered the faucet handle to turn it on or off. God takes care of that. He can send it in torrents or in mist. He can send it forty days and nights and drown the earth. He can shut the valve and make a Sahara. He can open it wide and create a Grand Canyon. Our Almighty God can do all that. We can do none of that.We can only look in amazement.
The Promised Land was a special place. Read: " The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as a vegetable garden. But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. .... if you faithfully obey.... I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and oil. I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle and you will eat and be satisfied....." (Deuteronmy 11)
With this promise also came a warning....."Then the Lord's anger will burn against you and He will shut the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce."
There you have it. God is the Divine Rainmaker. He is still in charge of wind and rain and weather. "This is my Father's world" !
