Tuesday, 2/16/16
The first reading
from Isaiah compares the good impulses God sends our way to the abundant drops
of rain he causes to fall on the earth.
It helps to briefly
consider our rainfalls as one of God’s ingenious miracles. With the rays of his
sun he draws up water, freeing it from its salt content. Then, forming it into
clouds, that with his winds he propels over thirsty lands.
The Bible gives us
these images to let us be aware of the constancy with which God prompts us to
act and to understand rightly. “The Acts” tells us, “God is not far from any of us, for in him we live and move and have our
being.” God is to us as the ocean is to a fish that knows no other
environment.
When I was teaching
the Seventh Grade class I would offer two dollars to the student who could
first memorize this passage. It is Isaiah, 55:10-11. Really, though, it starts
with verse 8. In total it is:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor
are your ways my ways my ways, says the Lord. As high as the heavens are above
the earth, so high are my ways above your ways and my thoughts are above your
thoughts.
For just as from the heavens the rain and
snow come down, and do not return there till they have watered the earth,
making it fertile and fruitful, giving seed to him who sows and brad to him who
eats.
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