The Water Cycle
I still remember the day I heard the concept. I was blessed that year to have inclusion students in the classroom of a fellow Christian. We were studying the water cycle. Valerie said something to the effect that “All the water on earth has been here from the beginning because it’s all recycled.” Mind blown.
The same water that Noah dealt with during the flood, that Elijah prayed would be withheld and then given again, that the Lord said falls “on the just and the unjust” (Matthew 5:45), is the same rain that falls on our heads. It changes forms, but it goes through the cycle over and over, watering crops, running to the ocean, evaporating into the atmosphere only to condense and fall again in another place.
Then recently, our preacher used Isaiah 55:5-11 to make a point that connected in my brain. Focus on Verses 10-11:
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
The only reason God’s word wouldn’t produce fruit is if it isn’t spread. The Great Commission could be called the water cycle of the Bible. If we go and make disciples teaching them to do all He commands, they will go and make disciples who teach all He commands.
Just as the snowflakes that landed on my nose a couple of weeks ago may have once been spring rain that led to the harvest Ruth gathered in Boaz’s field, so my hearing the word was the result of faithful disciples who continued the cycle of teaching God’s word. Will we continue to bless future generations? God’s word will not return empty, but it must be spread.
“Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” Matthew 13:8
AUTHOR: Amber Tatum
