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Flowers.
They are beautiful, providing massive swaths of color in our gardens. The most luxuriant of blooms burst from the varieties known as annuals. These regrow from seed each year, displaying riotous color all summer long, attracting bevies of adoring butterflies, and wilting away at the first frost.
Leave them, though, and they will go to seed, providing a new crop of volunteer plants to burst from the ground come spring.
Life through death. The plant must die in order for new growth to bless our gardens the following spring. The cool thing is, one plant can produce hundreds of volunteer flowers the following season. They burst from the ground, tiny and delicate, and if we care for them the smallest amount, our garden will be brighter with color every year, attracting more of God’s butterflies each season.
Romans 6:6-8 reveals this truth in our walk with Christ:
“We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.”
When we are born, we bloom, whether we are in Christ or not. Our true beauty comes when we are spiritually crucified with him. We release seeds that spread around us, and our garden erupts with the majesty of his love. He reaches through us to gift himself to everyone we touch. They are the butterflies, and their world becomes brighter because of us.
Verse 11 says that we are “alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” When we come to Christ, our old man dies. The seeds of Christ’s love burst from us, and they mature into a magnificent garden of delights, drawing the world to Jesus.
Look for the butterflies. They tell us God’s love is blooming in our life.
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