I was driving when Joshua cried out, “Rain!” I sighed, anticipating tugging two wet children through the streets. But Micah said, “Mummy, the rain is good! It makes the flowers grow.”
And so it does.
I’ve been reading the Book of Ezra for my personal devotions and was struck by the dual reaction of the Jewish exiles when they returned to Jerusalem and rebuilt the foundation of the Temple.
The first temple built by King Solomon had been destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC and the Jewish people taken captive. When God moved King Cyrus of Persia (who had conquered Babylon as prophesied) to empower the Jewish exiles to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem in 538 BC, nearly 50,000 people fulfilled that call.
by: Jinha Kim
"But those who drink the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John 4:14