Consider the Lilly

                   Consider the Lilly

 

Consider the lilies how they grow they toil not, they spin not, and yet I say unto you that Soloman in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ~ Luke 12:27

Let’s think about the Lord of all creation. He has created all things. He was satisfied with His creation, so much so that he called it good.

A simple and yet so complex lily was a part of that glorious creation. I think its safe to say the Lord loves and appreciates beauty in all forms. Just look out amongst his creation. We find beauty in everything our sight can behold if we will take the time to consider. A lily, a wildflower of its time. To some even a weed. But the Lord. He saw it as so important that He tended to it. He provided for it.  The lily, itself, does not work. It doesn’t have to care for itself. It simply does as it was made to do. It grows.

 From what you don’t see is all the activity that is taking place below in a cold, dark, desolate place. The lily doesn’t start out as a beautiful flower. No. She goes through a process.

What starts as a seed, or a bulb is plunged into the ground in the end of pangs of a cold fall. Awaiting, growing, changing, urning for the promise she has from the Gardener, himself. Her time is coming.  Not to soon. If in haste the cruel frost will bite her tender shoots of green. In His time when she is strong enough to stand up to the frost her green shoots burst through the ground.

She’s here. But, still there’s more. It’s not enough just to stand there. More time to sink in her roots down in the clay to hold her tall. 

She’s strong enough now. She’s ready to display her bud. She starts to unwrap each layer. She feels the warmth from the sun. He encourages her to continue to show the world who the Lord has made her to be. Her glorious array of color now to dance in the shine of the sun.

You’re a lily too.

 

~natalie essentially