Greetings, I am Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div.
“I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.” Hosea 14:5
Hosea, more than most of his fellow prophets, is the prophet of the Love of God. With wonderful virtue and healing in them, these ancient sentences of his should fall on my heart.
I will be as the dew, God says to me through this old messenger and servant in His family. How good a word that is!
Nothing is more beneficial than the dew. It refreshes the hot, tired earth. It rekindles its vanished beauty. It calls forth its fruit — the grass and the clover and the grains. Just so, God, in His mercy and grace, promises that He will deal with me. He will change my soul and my life from a wilderness, into His sweet garden.
But nothing is quieter and more noiseless than the dew. It makes no stir as it does its gracious work. It is as silent — as it is mighty. There is none of the whir and bustle of man’s machinery about its operations. Just so, God performs in me His miracles of regeneration and renewal — and His presence is not seen by the world outside at all. But I see, and know, and love, and praise.
And nothing is more discriminating and isolating than the dew. It falls on the wide world — on both field and forest and hill. Every blade of grass receives its own coolness and quickening and blessing. Thus God assures me that He will not forget and miss me in the vast and thronging crowd. On me, even me, the showers of His rich blessing will descend, as if I were His sole and only child!
Is it, not the very promise I require?
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