mylife4Him: After April Showers

Grace Gift
Flowers, flowers and more flowers.

Luke 12: 27-28: “Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you …”

You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being. (Revelation 4: 11)

ONE beautiful flower, I might be able to overlook. But hundreds upon hundreds, all intricately-formed, with the same basic pattern, yet each completely individual? I find myself thinking: How is it possible that God would flood a PLANT with so much beauty? And if He is willing to do that with a plant, how much more would He be willing to do that with a human life?

“THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S, AND EVERYTHING IN IT, THE WORLD, AND ALL WHO LIVE IN IT

FOR HE FOUNDED IT UPON THE SEAS AND ESTABLISHED IT UPON THE WATERS.” (PSALM 24:1-2)

I marvel at the precision of each flower. How could anyone imagine that this was not divinely created?

Why did God create so many different flowers? I wonder if it’s because He wanted to show us that His power, His mercies, His blessings, His mind, and His creativity know no bounds? He is capable of “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20).

When we think that we’ve seen all the blessings He has to give, we haven’t. There’s always infinitely more that God is capable of giving. And when we can’t imagine that there is anything other than what we currently see before our eyes, we are wrong, because God’s divine imagination and vision far exceed ours, and He sees possibilities even where we see none.

Look at a flower through eyes searching for a Designer. It won't be difficult to find evidence for it.

Was God concerned only with creating a world that would be useful to us, or did He care about beauty as well? Genesis 2:9 records that God created trees that were "pleasing to the eye and good for food". Ours is a God who cares not only about feeding us physically, but also about feeding us spiritually.

“I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?” (Jeremiah 32: 27)

This just looks like God opened up His paintbox one day, intent on capturing a burst of joy in a flower.

“FOR BY HIM [JESUS] ALL THINGS WERE CREATED: THINGS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE … ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM AND FOR HIM.” (COLOSSIANS 1:16)