The sun rises every morning, and sets every evening. The moon and the stars come out each night. The seasons change one after another, year after year. Automatically.
Why is this the case? The answer goes beyond our scientific understanding of nature to reveal something about the character of the God behind it. In judgment, He had sent a life-ending rain in mighty torrents, preserving the just but destroying the unjust. Now henceforth, in mercy, he would send a life-giving rain on the just and unjust alike.
