Dead Flowers

Yes, it is a bit of a gloomy sounding topic. What is there to say about dead flowers?

To reach our topic, we have to go back in time to when they were live flowers. We Christians are like flowers, populating God’s landscape. Some are trees—great pillars of the faith; some are bushes, in the process of maturing into trees; and some are just seedlings, poking up their first flowers.

Our spiritual lives can be equated to flowers. We can either cultivate our spiritual life, or let it die. The choice is ours to make and carry out. In this realm, we are the gardeners of our own flower. We can give it the best chance to live and grow, or we can neglect it and let it wither.

One Sunday, our pastor brought a dead plant with him to church. On the way, his wife asked, “What are you doing with that flower? Why don’t you just throw it away?”

But God isn’t like that. He can look deeper to the very roots and see what we can’t. We may give up on our little flower and “throw in the trowel”, but He will not. He’ll come along and give it a little water, and a little TLC, and a little time, and soon the flower is perked up and ready to bloom again, if we so choose to. When we’re feeling down and withered, God will come around and give us what we need to get going again. It may be a slow start, but a start nonetheless.

So the choice is yours. Will you nurture your spiritual life into a bloom in God’s landscape, or let it wither to a stick? Even if you’ve never gone to church or bothered much about God before, today can still be a turning point! Your life can become a beautiful bloom, in the image of the One who created you. The choice is up to you.

“The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green.” ~ Psalm 92:12-14