Sept. 13
THE DEW OF HEAVEN
"His heavens shall drop down dew" Deut. 33:28
What the dew in the East is to the world of nature, that is the
influence of the Spirit in the realm of grace. How greatly do I need
it! Without the Spirit of God I am a dry and withered thing. I droop,
I fade, I die. How sweetly does this dew refresh me! When once favored
with it I feel happy, lively, vigorous, elevated. I want nothing more.
The Holy Spirit brings me life, and all that life requires. All else
without the dew of the Spirit is less than nothing to me: I hear, I
read, I pray, I sing, I go to the table of communion, and I find no
blessing there until the Holy Ghost visits me. But when He bedews me,
every means of grace is sweet and profitable.
What a promise is this for me! "His heavens shall drop down dew." I
shall be visited with grace. I shall not be left to my natural
drought, or to the world's burning heat, or to the sirocco of Satanic
temptation. Oh, that I may at this very hour feel the gentle, silent,
saturating dew of the Lord! Why should I not? He who has made me to
live as the grass lives in the meadow, will treat me as He treats the
grass; He will refresh me from above. Grass cannot call for dew as I
do. Surely, the Lord who visits the unpraying plant will answer to His
pleading child.