Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
Each year the flowers that the children pick and bring to me become more and more grand. When they were very young they started with tiny clover flowers and a healthy dose of bright sunny dandelions. I even have four “mommy pots” that are perfect for these tiny flowers picked by tiny hands.
But then over the years there was a shift. They started picking and bringing bigger and bigger flowers. They would bring me daffodils, tulips and phlox. Their ability to see and appreciate beauty had grown along with them. Their ability to choose flowers that required a bigger vessel had grown. They were no longer satisfied with run of the mill flowers. They wanted the bigger, more vibrant flowers that carried more presence.
As I found myself pondering this growth I started thinking about our growth in the spiritual. We start out drinking milk as the scriptures say. The tiny flowers are good enough to keep us pursuing God and satisfied in His presence. Are we content however to just keep picking these tiny flowers of God’s creation or do we desire more? Are we making room in our vessel for more and more of the beauty and presence of God? Are we content with the manna that falls from the sky every night or are we ready for the colossal grapes and abundant honey of our promised land?
Philippians 3:12-14 says:
12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Final Thoughts…
I want my spiritual hunger to keep growing. I never want to be satisfied with who I am or who I believe God to be. It’s good to be content with our lot and not develop the wilderness whines, but we must have just as much of a desire to not grow stagnant. We will never be perfect on this side of heaven, but our pursuit of being like Him should never grow stale. We should desire to grow in our understanding of Him and our faith in His ability to take care of us and show us His love. We need to continue to mature in our desire to crucify anything that gets in between us and Him. Let’s put aside those tiny flowers of yesterday and pursue the abundance of today.