A man who wears many hats, photographer Dale Lewis sent us these pictures of lilies that have been reappearing in his garden for the past few years. “I think it was probably 10 years ago that I first got the bulbs and planted them,” he explained. “And each year, they just keep springing back when it is springtime.” He doesn’t do anything to get them growing and looking beautiful after the winter has passed. It’s just in their DNA, it seems.
Are you in a wintry season of your life? Are you experiencing scarcity, barely enough to get through the rest of today, tomorrow, this week, this month? Reflect on God’s promise to lilies in Matthew chapter 6 and recall that He makes an even bigger promise to those who place their trust and confidence in Him.
Challenges there are, but a little faith, even as small as a mustard seed, really does go a long way.
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:28-34