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A. W. Tozer wrote, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” He was not flattering…
Worship · Identity · Pride
Tozer · Isaiah 6 · Hebrews 12
Metaphor
Rain that does not come back empty
Isaiah 55:10–11
Isaiah says the word of God is like rain and snow that leave the sky, water the earth, make it bud, and do not return until they have done what they were sent to do. It is not a picture of magic sentences. It is a picture of a God who finishes errands. Seeds look like nothing in the hand. Weather looks wasted on the day it falls. Then the field is green. Preachers and hearers both live in the gap between the cloud and the harvest. The metaphor tells you what to do in that gap: keep sowing, and stop pretending you are the weather.
How you’d preach it
Use when people are tired of speaking or hearing the same word with little to show. Name the delay without apologizing for it. The promise is not that every sermon feels effective. It is that God does not send his word on a fool’s errand.
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Isaiah 55 · Hebrews 4
Isaiah 55:10–11; Hebrews 4:12