“They’re for you!” said my six-year-old son, Mark, as he handed me a wilted bunch of dandelions.
“Why, thank you,” I said as he proudly gave them to me. “I think they need some water. Why don’t you get a glass for them.”
Mark quickly got a glass of water so the flowers could “have a drink,” and we put them on the table for the whole family to see. Then Mark went back outside to play.
I was thinking of the bouquet of dandelions that Mark had given me. Dandelions were everywhere; in the city, in the country, and along the roadsides. I don’t think I’ve been anyplace where they didn’t grow. The yellow blossoms are so colorful and pretty; they attract our attention. Yet in just a few days the beauty is gone and is replaced with gray puff balls that children like to pick and blow. Isaiah writes in the Bible of the flower fading (Isa. 40:77The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. (Isaiah 40:7)). How important it is to have that new life in Christ “that fadeth not away.” Isaiah 1:44Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. (Isaiah 1:4).
The roots of the dandelion grow so very deep that they seem to be a part of the earth. If we know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour, we become “one with Him.” We cannot be separated from Him. The Lord said, “I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” John 10:2828And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (John 10:28). Do you have that “new life"? Are your sins washed away? Time is short. The youthfulness of today will be gone so quickly. Don’t put it off. Accept Him as your own today. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31).
ML-08/24/1980