As you browse nature’s aisle, your senses are awakened to
its enticements. Like a visit to a home improvement store, you see a painter’s
palette beyond imagination. You dream of how such picturesque beauties of wild
flowers and honeyed branches could find a place in your daily life, not just
the occasional visit. The fields are filled with flower carpets in the delicate
and the bold; splashes of bright oranges poppies explode into view. Your sensations
are most surely overwhelmed by this sight. God is clearly an uninhibited
artist; his selection of pigment knows no limit. Yellows, oranges, reds coexist
beside greens, browns, purples, and whites.
But you may ask why does a Creative Genius take such delight
and precise care with such seemingly insignificant items? They are here today and
gone tomorrow only to be replaced by others equally or even more beautiful and fragrant.
These fantastic gems last so little time, yet He thoughtfully and carefully dedicated
His attention to them. Can we do any less?
The best and most complete answer is that God wants to be
seen and known, but even more so, He wants you to know how much He loves you.
He goes about his job with a tremendous joy and a supreme finesse as He places
each wild flower, the blue columbine, and cacti even in the arid air of the dessert.
He places the succulents and the trees for the birds to build their nests near the
beauty of the green mountains.
What purpose can beauty serve if it cannot draw us to rest,
to contemplation, and to conversation with its Creator who has created a
symphony of sight, sound, and smells? He has left His calling card and hopes
you will give him a ring, so as you peruse the aisle of this world improvement
store, let each blade of grass, each
petal of flower, and leaf of tree, sing
“Oh how He loves you!”MJ
How great is the love
the Father has lavished on us,that we should be called children of God and that
is what we are!
1 John 3:1
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