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.