March 26, 2024

March 26:  Joy to the World.

God Uses the Elements to Produce Food.
You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home, and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.  You cause grass to grow for the livestock and plants for the people to use.  You allow them to produce food from the earth.--Psalm 104:13, 14, NLT

GOD HAS BOUNTIFULLY PROVIDED for the sustenance and happiness of all His creatures; and if His laws were never violated, and all acted in harmony with the divine will, health, peace, and happiness, instead of misery and continual evil, would be experienced.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, 368.

It is by the mighty power of the Infinite One that the elements of nature in earth and sea and sky are kept within bounds.  And these elements He uses for the happiness of His creatures.  "His good treasures" is freely expended "to give rain...in his season, and to bless all the work" of man's hands.  Deuteronomy 28:12.--Prophets and Kings, 134.

                                 You make springs gush forth in the valleys;
                                             they flow between the hills,
                                       giving drink to every wild animal;
                                       the wild asses quench their thirst.
                         By the streams the birds of the air have their habitation;
                                    they sing among the branches....
                               You cause the grass to grow for the cattle,
                                         and plants for people to use,
                                     to bring forth food from the earth,
                                  and wine to gladden the human heart.
                              
               --Psalm 104:10-12, 14, 15, NRSV