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Job chapter 37, verses 11 through 13, listen to this description of God and the rain.

He loads the thick cloud with moisture.

The clouds scatter his lightning.

They turn around and around by his guidance to accomplish

all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world, whether for correction or for his land

or for love, he causes it to happen. This is so good. A God-centered picture of rain. When you see

rain around you, realize that God is causing it to happen. And there's a lot we could talk about

there, just God's sovereign rule

and reign over everything in creation. But I want to hone in on verse 13 here when Elihu,

who's the one who's saying these words, talks about God's different purposes with rain. He says,

whether for correction or for his land or for love,

he causes it to happen. So Elihu just lists out three potential purposes God may have in sending

rain. He may send it for correction in some way. So a storm might be a picture of his discipline

or for love. Rain is obviously a picture of his blessing on the land for fruit, which he says

or just for his land. Like it may not be for correction in our lives or for love specifically

toward us. It may just be for the land's sake. So God sends reign for different purposes. And the

whole picture here in Job 37 is we can trust that God has many different purposes and the many things he sovereignly oversees

in the world. And we can trust that ultimately his purposes are good for all those who know him

and worship him and walk with him for those who are his people, we can trust that when

things happen in our lives, God may be carrying out a corrective purpose through those things.

He may be showing his love toward us in a particular way through those things.

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