Upheld In Looking At Lilies

I keep looking around and seeing the great beauty that God has planted. Such beautiful flowers and such luscious fruits and vegetables. And this is seeing through a veil. I can’t imagine this brilliance is really a dim reflection of what we’ll see one day in heaven.

I’ve been ruminating lately on several situations, directions, etc. in life. I find that as I consider these things over and over, they become mountainous in my head until they take over my thought life. What should I do here? Where should I go there? Is this the project I should concentrate on – or that one? Which is screaming the loudest?

I’ve shared with friends these frustrations and found that several of them are going down this same road. As I consulted with my mentor, Oswald Chambers in his “My Utmost for His Highest” I found Oswald asking this question:

“Am I preventing God from doing things in my circumstances by saying that it will only serve to hinder my fellowship with Him?”

And I wondered what that meant. I am already overwhelmed. But, in all these things, have I asked God what He wants me to concentrate on? Uh … well … maybe … sorta … sometimes.

“How irrelevant and disrespectful that is! It does not matter what my circumstances are. I can be as much assured of abiding in Jesus in any one of them as I am in any prayer meeting. It is unnecessary to change and arrange my circumstances myself.”

Oswald says that “Jesus’ inner abiding was pure and unblemished.” Jesus talked to His Father all the time. The communication lines were open. He waited for His direction from His Father. He didn’t waste time or thought life spinning wheels.  No looking through a dark veil.

I’m not sure I am understanding this yet. I am certain that Jesus is our model. And I understand that when I look at flowers, big rocks that tower over rivers, sunsets, green trees and shrubs, I can remember that Father God has my good in mind, too. If I would only give Him the time of day.

“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” Matthew 6: 28,29.