Rain, rain, come again!

This is Day 142 of the Drought Count in our area!   You don't want to be grateful for other people's misfortunes but we are openly praying that Hurricane Isaac will do its work in the South and keep enough rain in its clouds to douse us with its leftovers.  My parents taught me to believe in the weather and respect it.  After all, I had bragging rights to the fact that my grandfather, James F. Cooper, was a "water witch" in practicality.  People of Izard County knew that he could take his dowser stick, walk the fields, and when that stick flipped over, there would be water!  His wells never went dry!  I believed that sincerely as a child because I have walked with him and seen him at work.  And he never lied!

Not only do I respect weather, but I live in a community of farmers.   Every acre of ground in Mississippi County (MO) is solid gold.  They say that you drop in a seed and jump back so it won't hit you!  (That is an overstatement but it has some kind of truth in its kernal!)   But the  long drought has robbed the ground of its growing power.  The corn crops look like the crop has already been picked and sold to the highest bidder.

So what does all this have to do with theology!  More than one would think at first glance!  Remember the Scripture, "The Earth is the Lord,s and the fullness thereof: the world and they that dwell within."  (Psalm 24:1)  Proof texts of God's concern with the land and its bounty and the impact that droughts and floods have upon that land  and the people abound throughout the Bible.  I especially like Isaiah 45:8:  "Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness, let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit, let the earth cause them both to sprout, I the Lord have created it."

God did create all of this and his eye is watching.  It's another exercise in faith - a dry run, perhaps!