In The Master's Service

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AND THEN THE RAINS CAME!

On April 14 we received one and one-half inches of rain. The next time we received rain was on June 14. That was nine weeks minus one day. About May first we planted a half-acre garden. Except for the area where we were able to water the garden, nothing has come up, not even grass and weeds.

Things need water in order to live and grow. If there is no water, the seed cannot germinate and grow. After the plants are growing they still need water to thrive.

We are just like those plants: we must have water in order to live. Without water we would soon "wither and die." It is possible for us to forego eating for quite a while, but we must continue to drink fluids in order to live. We cannot long be without liquid and still live.

In the beginning the earth was watered with a mist that went up from the earth. When Noah was preaching about the great flood, people ridiculed him, saying that it had never rained.

After the flood people could say that it had rained, had really rained, for the first time. The only trouble was that those who ridiculed Noah were no longer alive to say anything. The eight souls who were saved from the flood waters saw the bow in the sky, indicating that God would never send another flood such as the one they had just witnessed.

Sometimes we question why the rains are withheld so that we experience the dry seasons. We know the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike; therefore, we cannot say the rain comes because we deserve it. In the beginning God divided the waters from the waters. There was water in the firmament and there was water in the depths of the earth.

When the clouds become saturated with water, it is possible for us to experience the rains of heaven. It has been said that it always rains at the end of a long dry spell! We know that in our area it was dry for nine weeks, and then the rains came!