“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.
You know, dandelions are everywhere—in the city, in the country, and along the roadsides. I don’t think I’ve been any place where they don’t grow. The yellow flowers are such a bright color that they attract our attention. Yet, in just a few days the pretty flowers are gone, and in their places are gray puffballs that children like to pick and blow. Isaiah writes in the Bible of the flower fading (Isaiah 40:7). How important it is to have that new life in Christ “that [fades] not away” (1 Peter 1:4).
The roots of dandelions 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.” He has given us a new life that cannot be separated from Him. The Lord Jesus said, “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”? Time is short, so don’t put off accepting Jesus as your Saviour. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31).
ML-06/27/2010