Most people are very fond of flowers; they are among the sweetest things in the world. They have been called “living poetry”; “visible music”; “stars of the earth”; “nature’s jewelry.” Another name given to flowers is “silent sermons.” They quickly fade and die, and so remind us of the shortness of our life on earth.
During April in Palestine the land is carpeted with any number of beautiful wild flowers. But about the beginning of May a burning wind from the desert sweeps up and smites the land with the blast of a furnace, and in so short a time as twenty-four hours withers up all the flowers. And the Bible says, “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone: and the place thereof shall know it no more.” Psalms 103:15, 1615As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. (Psalm 103:15‑16).
“Is there anything to love that will last Forever?” asked a little boy.
“Yes, Christ; and when we receive Him as our Saviour and Friend, He remains ours Forever, for our present and eternal enjoyment.”
A young girl accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her Saviour. She had been fond of worldly pleasures, but now that she knew and loved the Saviour, she found that she had lost interest in these things. She had something far better. She spoke to her young brother about the Lord, and asked him to come to Christ. But Willie at first did not want to. He said to her,
“See what you have had to give up since you became a Christian.”
“Willie”, she replied, “when you were quite a little boy, you used to play with a rattle, but when you became older you had to give it up.”
“No, I didn’t”, he said, “I dropped the rattle when I found something better.”
“Neither have I had to give up anything”, the girl answered. “I dropped those worldly things when I took Christ and His salvation; when I had something better they simply fell off.”
Do you know what that means? Love to Christ drives out the love of sin, and of the things that pull the wrong way. And as soon as you really believe His love for you, and receive Him as God’s gift to you, you will begin to love Him. And you can start today.
“The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, lie is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:14, 15, 1714For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. (2 Corinthians 5:14‑15)
17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17).
ML 08/16/1931