The Rain of Deliverance

Estes Park, Colorado

If you stare at these clouds long enough they will appear to be moving. Even though we have over 300 days of sun in Colorado, the sky still produces many days of clouds. It is not unusual for a day to start out cloudless and finish with pouring rain.

"O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the LORD, create it." Isaiah 45:8 New English Translation

What a beautiful picture of God's deliverance. Isaiah recognizes that God's people needed deliverance; deliverance from their rebellion against him and, in the future, deliverance from their captivity in Babylon.

From what do you need deliverance? Isaiah is speaking to God's people, those who were intimate with the ways of the Lord, but they needed deliverance.

We are the baptized of God, those who have been adopted into God's family through merits of Jesus Christ, and yet we too need deliverance.

The prayer of Isaiah is for the soil of our lives to soak up the salvation of God. In other words, Isaiah pleads with God that our lives might be nourished by him and that his deliverance might sprout in our lives.

Jesus Christ is God's rain of deliverance for you and me.

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