God’s spiritual rain soaks truth into your life. It opens your spiritual eyes and understanding. These nuggets of truth will change your everyday life if you allow them in.
Deuteronomy 11: 8-14
Soon you will cross the Jordan River, and if you obey the laws and teachings I’m giving you today, you will be strong enough to conquer the land that the LORD promised your ancestors and their descendants. It’s rich with milk and honey, and you will live there and enjoy it for a long time.
It’s better land than you had in Egypt, where you had to struggle just to water your crops.
But the hills and valleys in the promised land are watered by rain from heaven, because the LORD your God keeps his eye on this land and takes care of it all year long.
The LORD your God commands you to love him and to serve him with all your heart and soul. If you obey him, he will send rain at the right seasons, so you will have more than enough food, wine, and olive oil, and there will be plenty of grass for your cattle. CEV
During a light soaking rain, the Holy Spirit showed me an awesome word picture. It gave me a clear understanding about the above verses.
God told the Israelites to obey His commands and love and serve Him with all their hearts.
THEN He would take care of them by sending the right amount of rain from heaven at the right time. The rain they received would be perfect for the crops they were growing. And it would soak in for maximum benefit and yield.
This is a picture of the way God sends you spiritual rain, or nuggets of truth. They are not so big that you can’t understand them. But they are just the right size so you can study, think about, and absorb them. This is the only way truth can change your life for the long term.
To “soak truth in” means to meditate and absorb a little at a time. Your mind always wants to rebel at something that is very different from what you already know. It tries to justify what you know now as right and the new thing as wrong.
Let the Word soak in and change your life by doing it slowly and surely. Then the growth you have accomplished will have the chance to take hold and become deeply rooted.
The Holy Spirit wants your heart to stay fertile and tilled so that it will be easy for Him to give you direction. He never wants you to get so stuck in a certain way of doing things that you miss what He says.
But…the Holy Spirit will never lead you to do something that is contrary to the Word of God.
God’s spiritual rain soaks truth into your life in a different way than you may think. But He would never lead you to do something that is not in alignment with His Word.
It might not make sense to you, but it always makes perfect sense to God. He can see the whole picture.
When He sends you a wonderful nugget of truth, ask the Holy Spirit for understanding and how to apply it to your life. He does all the wonderful work inside you to help you understand truth clearly.
