1/15/10

A reflection of love

When I first saw this picture of the flower I appreciated it for its beauty and then I looked a bit closer. Notice the drop of water; in it is a reflection of the flower. Like a flower within a flower it seems to shout of beauty in a way I had never really thought of before. Without a doubt, God does beautiful work.

Consider this passage from the New Testament.

Matthew 6:24-34 WEB (R)
(24) "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
(25) Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
(26) See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?
(27) "Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
(28) Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,
(29) yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
(30) But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
(31) "Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'
(32) For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
(33) But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
(34) Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.

God cares for even the humble flowers of the field and the depth of that love is revealed as being nothing in comparison to that of HIS love for us. If he takes such care to produce magnificence on such a scale that even its mere reflection is a work of art, then what joys await those who have faith and trust in him?