Psalm 147:8
The Spring Season
The spring season is spoken of in Scripture as representing a season of the outpouring of the Spirit of God. As it is so on many other accounts, so in these:
In the spring, the seed that is sown in stony places spouts and looks as fair as that in good ground, though in the summer, for want of moisture and deepness of earth, it withers away. In the spring, innumerable flowers and young fruits appear flourishing and bid fair that afterwards drop off and come to nothing.
In the spring, many streams flow high, many from snow water—though not every day, even in the spring, but only in warm days by fits, and are frozen up between-whiles, like hypocrites’ affections by pangs during a great outpouring of the Spirit. And in the spring also, those streams that flowed from living fountains, and run all winter and summer, are greatly increased. But when the spring is over, all streams are totally dried up but those that are supplied by living springs.
So a shower of rain is like an outpouring of the Spirit. It makes water flow abundantly in the streets, and greatly raises the streams from living fountains, and when the shower is over, the streams in the streets are dried up and the streams from the fountains are diminished. So a shower causes mushrooms suddenly to spring up, as well as good plants to grow, and blasts many fruits as well as bring others to perfection.
Readings taken from Day By Day With Jonathan Edwards
The Spring Season
The spring season is spoken of in Scripture as representing a season of the outpouring of the Spirit of God. As it is so on many other accounts, so in these:
In the spring, the seed that is sown in stony places spouts and looks as fair as that in good ground, though in the summer, for want of moisture and deepness of earth, it withers away. In the spring, innumerable flowers and young fruits appear flourishing and bid fair that afterwards drop off and come to nothing.
In the spring, many streams flow high, many from snow water—though not every day, even in the spring, but only in warm days by fits, and are frozen up between-whiles, like hypocrites’ affections by pangs during a great outpouring of the Spirit. And in the spring also, those streams that flowed from living fountains, and run all winter and summer, are greatly increased. But when the spring is over, all streams are totally dried up but those that are supplied by living springs.
So a shower of rain is like an outpouring of the Spirit. It makes water flow abundantly in the streets, and greatly raises the streams from living fountains, and when the shower is over, the streams in the streets are dried up and the streams from the fountains are diminished. So a shower causes mushrooms suddenly to spring up, as well as good plants to grow, and blasts many fruits as well as bring others to perfection.
Readings taken from Day By Day With Jonathan Edwards
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