Trusting God is sometimes hard. In one sense He gave us intelligence to be able to think ahead. Sometimes this ability can cause great stress in our lives. We worry when we think about what tomorrow might possibly bring. But Jesus counsels:
"See how the lilies of the fields grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all of his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you?" Matthew 6:28-30
Springtime is a time for a beautiful splendor of colors, blossoming all over the earth. There are greens and yellows, blues and reds, oranges and browns; manifesting the majesty of God's glory around the globe.
Many people in North America spend a lot of effort to make their lawns a rich green after their long winter's browning. And then, little yellow blossoms of dandelions begin to randomly sprout everywhere. This causes many to become angry, and purchases are made of weed controls and plucking tools to get rid of the nasty weed.
My theory is that God gives us the dandelion, like He gives the Coastal regions of Israel the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valleys, to remind us of this very important lesson about "worry", in Matthew. I think the dandelion must be among God's most favorite flowers, because He bountifully blesses our lawns and fields with them.
The color green is a soothing color; and yellow is the color of joy. What a great blessing God gives to our lawns and fields every year, at springtime. We can sit on a grassy hillside, in the green grass and among the yellow dandelions, and be both soothed in our souls and filled with joy, as we meditate on the Lord. I can almost feel the early summer breezes caressing my face as I think upon these things.
Song of Songs 2:1 says,
"I am a rose of Sharon (crocus), a lily of the valleys."
These were very common flowers, probably consider by many to be weeds, which grew bountifully along the Coastal regions of Israel during Solomon's time. When he wrote the Song of Songs, He used these flowers in particular to illustrate the commonness of humanity. The commonality in all of us is that we are all sinners in need of God's grace and mercy. However, God sees nothing common in any of us. We are each uniquely made by the hands of God in His image and likeness.
If you were to closely examine one dandelion from another, you would quickly identify many differences. Even though we look upon all of them as the same, each one was uniquely designed by God and placed on our lawns and in in our fields to bring honor and glory to Him.
Just as God painstakingly created every lily of the field, and every dandelion of our lawns, and every rose of Sharon of the Coastal regions of Israel, how much more has He cared for you. We simply need to trust Him for what he does best - He cares for us in the exact moment of time.
Blessings,
-Leo
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