God's Design and Our Desire

So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6: 28-34)

If I could only be as the wildflowers in the fields, growing, maturing, and blooming as God designed and nourishes. Among the weeds, despite weather, withstanding storms, the wildflowers continue their cycle of growth/bloom, and it continues year by year.

 The flowers grow and mature without worries about rain, wind, drought, or weeds. They are totally in the hands of God. If we, made in His image (Genesis 1:27), much more radiant and complex that a wildflower, would simply trust God with the details, how much more would we bloom and grow according to His plans?

God's design or our desire . . .is their really a choice? We worry so much about the weeds around us, choking out our plans. We plan against storms and in the process create our own! We feed on the world and our fleshly deires rather than the richness of His design for us. We allow the winds of this world to uproot us rather than staying firmly rooted in His Word.

What more could we accomplish if we would only learn from the wildflowers?  What if we placed our trust in God, the Master Gardner, just a bit more?