Imagine you were the wealthiest person on earth. Imagine if you possessed the greatest intellect, knowledge, and ability known to humanity. Imagine if you had at your command myriads of minions to do your bidding, to carry out your every plan instantly and to the full. Imagine that you built great cities, planted vast forests, and created the most astounding works of art. Imagine if no one noticed.
For decades every spring, there comes a day when I go out the front door to get the morning paper, and I’m stopped in my tracks by a beautiful, delicate flower growing where almost no one can see it. That crocus is so astonishingly colored and formed that I just hold my breath for a minute, then grab my camera to capture its image before it fades away.
One day this week I asked God, “Why bother?” Why would He, the most powerful, the most intelligent, the most creative force in the universe, plant this tiny flower right there where my wife and I are the only ones to see it? Why would He, with all the great resources at His command, put so much beauty into this fragile blossom?
I found the answer in His word. The crocus’ is God’s way of saying, “I’m here. I love you.” When He created the world, He could have shown us His abundant love by simply providing “practical” things like food, water, air. It would have been more than enough to sustain life. But God choose to make things beautiful, to enrich our lives, to reveal Himself so that we might see Him as He is.
How grateful I am for this little flower, this non-practical evidence that our Heavenly Father loves us. SDG
Luke 12:27-29 (ESV) Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!
Robert Frohlich 