God will give rain to the just and unjust.

 The truth you've shared—that God will give rain to the just and unjust—is a profound revelation of God's character known as His common grace. It speaks of His impartial kindness and generosity to all humanity.

📖 The Scriptural Source

This statement comes directly from the teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount:

"He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." (Matthew 5:45)

Jesus uses this universal provision to illustrate a greater point: if God is generous even to His enemies, we should love our enemies, too. This rain is a daily demonstration of God's patient kindness, meant to lead people to repentance (Romans 2:4).

⛅ The Two Rains: Common Grace and Saving Grace

Theologians often distinguish between two kinds of God's blessing:

Type of Grace What It Is Who Receives It Purpose

Common Grace The tangible, life-sustaining blessings of sun, rain, harvest, beauty, and human conscience. Everyone, just and unjust. To demonstrate God's goodness, sustain life, and reveal His power and care, inviting all to seek Him (Acts 14:17).

Saving Grace The gift of forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ. All who believe and receive (John 1:12). To redeem and restore a personal relationship with God, transforming the heart forever.

The rain on the just and unjust is the ultimate proof that God's love is not earned by our behavior. It is a grace-gift, a precursor to the greater gift of salvation offered in Christ.

💧 A Reflection: The Generosity of God

The rain falls softly on the field of the saint

And on the field of the scoffer, the same.

It does not ask for a resume of virtue,

For a record of prayers spoken in the dark.

It falls because the Giver is good,

Not because the recipient is worthy.

This is the scandal of Your grace, O God—

Your kindness lavished on the beloved and the bitter.

Let this rain teach me:

To see Your patience in every storm,

To hear Your invitation in every drop,

And to learn from Your open hand

How to love beyond merit.

This truth humbles the righteous (who cannot claim superior worth) and offers hope to the unrighteous (who are not beyond the reach of God's kindness). It calls everyone to look at the falling rain and see the fingerprints of a merciful Creator, whose greatest gift is not water for our fields, but Living Water for our souls (John 4:14).

If you would like to explore more about how God's common grace points us to His saving grace, or how we are called to reflect this impartial love, I can provide further scriptural guidance.