To Everything There is a Season

The season to prepare for the rest of the year according to the calendar of YHWH is just about upon us.  We are just a couple of weeks from the first month on our Creator's calendar.  It is not presumption or a lack of faith to recognize His seasons and prepare as His Word Instructs.  This is seed time, and if a harvest is expected, the planting season cannot be ignored.  Our society has been drawn away from YHWH's plan for so long, most of us are out of touch with even the concept of seed time and harvest.

A particular pet peeve of mine is to hear people complaining about rain in the spring!  Throughout Scripture, rain is a blessing from YHWH.  There was that one big incident in Genesis, but He's promised that won't happen again, and even then, His people were blessed to be saved, and once again be agrarian when the boat docked.  We need rain in it's season and spring time is the season we need it.  I'm enjoying the appearance of green at the end of the tree branches and just above the ground.  Every drop of rain is nourishing the pastures and the tender shoots in the garden, as well as the delicate leaves of the fruit trees.

Realizing we've become so distant from our food supply and religion has been teaching for years, that money and material possessions are blessings, rather than rain.  I'm going to preach,  now!  Many of us are familiar with Malachi 3:10  Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.  

I discovered only recently that the same Hebrew words here in Malachi 3 are the same words used in Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

This is the season to receive the blessing poured out from the open windows of heaven.  Most offerings were bread or meat, while tithes were often, produce.  The blessing is rain!