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Friday, June 14, 2024
Every once in awhile over the last few months I’ve paused beside a garden in our neighborhood to take an “update photo” on how its flowers are growing. As you’ll see from both the photos, these neighbors have devoted their entire front yard to floral plants.
The first photo was taken April 7, and the second just a couple of days ago this week. As you can see, the roses are definitely in the spotlight, and they’ll continue to flourish over the next several weeks.
I’m not sure how those who aren’t certain about the existence of a Creator with an eye for color and a taste for vast diversity deal with flowers in their various stages of growth. To me, flowers prove God’s existence as surely as any other reasoning. And Jesus insisted that flowers confirm God’s care as well:
So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:28 – 34 NKJV