Tulips and Trust

Spring in Dunedin is a Beautiful thing. Sunshine and rain, trees bursting with blossoms, and the flowers. Oh the flowers! This year the kids planted tulips in their little gardens in our tiny backyard. Everyday we could look outside and see them growing, changing, and claiming their rightful place center stage in the kids' gardens because they are beautiful.

Although we planted our bulbs I am reminded that there is little else I or the kids did to make these flowers grow. God grows the flowers, we just enjoy them. It never ceases to amaze me that God seems to make them grow so beautiful so I can enjoy them. But he also made them beautiful for another reason. He made them beautiful to remind me of His sovereignty, His power and His love.

‘Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith!’                                                          Luke 12:27-28

God made each tulip grow, he cared, so made them beautiful. And he cares for me too.

All season God grew them tall, he sprinkled the rain on their wide leaves, He opened their petals to the sun and he closed them in the night and through the hail. And he promises that if the flowers have reason to surrender to His ways, how much more reason do I, whom he loves, have to trust Him.

Yes our life goes on and we face nights and days, sunshine and storms but God promises that he is always in control. I might struggle to control my own life, and yes I might worry about basic things like how to feed my family, where we are going to live, and how we’ll be clothed. But the fact is I’m not in control, I’m never in control. I don’t know what will happen, at the moment I can’t even guess. But I do know that God does know and that He loves, cares and is providing for me.

But today I look at the kids gardens and see that spring is almost over and the tulips are dying. Summer is slowly arriving and their beauty is fading and falling away. But there is a beauty in this too, because I know God is still in control. 

I know that He will always be in control. 

Long after summer comes, the flowers fall and the plant dies, spring will come again, and again, God will grow that flower.

Yes God has always provided for me, he is providing for me and all this life he will provide for me till eventually the eternal spring will come and God will provide for me forever. 

 “You have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.”    

1 Peter 1:23