 That is what this passage is about. It isn't about, oh, what a lovely backdrop and a nice thing for us to throw up in a banner on the side of a church, but rather a demonstration of what is most essential. We'll read it again. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there, but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth.