It was early in the morning on February 3 and dew blanketed my lawn and the glass railings surrounding my deck. Our February temperatures have been unseasonably spring-like but that morning they dropped again and the moisture turned to a sparkling crystal like pattern on the glass.
I have a book that I read in the morning with a passage dated for each day. I had been busy all week taking care of my 3 year old grandson and missed several days so I went back to January 30 to catch up. I had a fun week of non-stop activity but felt the need that morning for some deep physical and spiritual rest.
This is the passage that I read …
Spiritual Dew
“I will be as the dew to Israel…” (Hos. 14:5).
The dew is a source of freshness. It is nature’s provision for renewing the face of the earth. It falls at night, and without it the vegetation would die. It is this great value of the dew which is so often recognized in the Scriptures. It is used as the symbol of spiritual refreshing. Just as nature is bathed in dew, so the Lord renews His people. In Titus 3:5 the same thought of spiritual refreshing is connected with the ministry of the Holy Spirit – “renewing of the Holy Spirit.”
…Every day you must receive the renewing of the Holy Spirit. You know when your whole being is pulsating with the vigor and freshness of Divine life and when you feel jaded and worn. Quietness and absorption bring the dew. At night when the leaf and blade are still, the vegetable pores are open to receive the refreshing and invigorating bath; so spiritual dew comes from quietly lingering in the Master’s presence. Get still before Him. Haste will prevent your receiving the dew. Wait before God until you feel saturated with His presence; then go forth to your next duty with the conscious freshness and vigor of Christ.
– Dr. Paddington
Dew will never gather while there is either heat or wind. The temperature must fall, and the wind cease, and the air come to a point of coolness and rest – absolute rest, so to speak – before it can yield up its invisible particles of moisture to bedew either herb or flower. So the grace of God does not come forth to rest the soul of man until the still point is fairly and fully reached.
“Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease:
Take from our souls the strain and stress;
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.
Breathe through the pulses of desire
Thy coolness and Thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire:
Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still small voice of calm!
– Taken from Streams In The Desert compiled by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman.
After reading the above excerpt from my book and praying for God’s fresh dew to Invigorate me, I glanced out my picture window and noticed the frost on the glass railing surrounding my deck was melting…all except one area of the glass nearest to my window. It’s a heart! I whispered. I grabbed my phone and took this photo:
Everything I read that morning and this heart spoke deeply to me and I was revived.
Some may call this silly or a coincidence but I call it the still small voice of God.
Blessings,