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Zechariah chapter 10, verse 1.

Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain,

from the Lord who makes the storm clouds,

and he will give them showers of rain,

to everyone the vegetation in the field.

It's a simple verse, isn't it?

Ask for rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain.

So now a naturalist, secularist, someone who doesn't believe in God, just believes everything is happening naturally around

us. It says, why would you ask for someone to provide rain when it's the season of the spring

rain? Like, it just happens. But that's the God-centered reality at the heart of the Bible

and the guard that we need to make sure we have

in our lives in a world where so much is naturalistic, materialistic, focused on what we can

see, focused on what science says.

Not that this is going against science and how rain happens with clouds and this or that, but the whole point is it's not ultimately natural

processes. It's the season of the spring rain because it's the time when God chooses

to fill the clouds with rain.

He's the one who brings the rain.

He's the one who makes the storm clouds.

When you see a storm cloud, you can know that's not just natural processes happening up there.

When you see water falling from the sky, it's not just natural processes happening up there. When you see water falling from the sky,

it's not just a natural process that you're witnessing.

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