Good morning…
Following a dry streak, I love the first rainy day. When else does one get to wear a happy pink coat and fun purple Hunter boots, both joyfully treasured from a Goodwill store? The first day feels refreshing. The second day becomes a bit of a drag. Dreary does not settle in until day three or four. Disdain descends by the end of the week, when the weatherman reports, “I see no end in sight.” Waking to another drizzly day, I am led to these words in Deuteronomy 32:2 (AMP).
“Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
As the light rain upon the tender grass,
And as the spring showers upon the herb.”
I delight in an image of the teachings of God showering down upon me as a light rain, but what does it mean for God’s speech to “distill” as the dew? The word “distill” comes from Latin origin. “Dis” means “apart.” “Stillaire” means “to drip, drop.” God separates out droplets of wisdom, setting them apart, before drip-dropping truth from heaven to blanket the earth.
Rain comes sometimes, dew happens daily. I feel new moisture each and every morning. I prayerfully ponder. I pull apart divine inklings, separating them with my mind, my heart, my fingers on the keyboard. I experience another meaning of “distill.” To extract essential elements. To refine or to clarify. To purify or to condense. The LORD helps me to “distill” succinct droplets of divine wisdom, pulling apart essential elements before drip-dropping fresh words as dew upon the page.
Now it is your turn to “distill” God’s morning droplets. Pull them apart. Clarify them for yourself. Extract the essential elements of God’s truth before drip-dropping divine wisdom into your daily life.
From the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth, may God always give you abundant harvests… Genesis 27:28a (NLT),
Sue
