Flowers always start out as a pot of dirt.
Who cares what the pot looks like? Until the blooms begin to lift from the soil … and you get the point.
Here’s a story about an old fisherman from Indonesia.
The shrunken man with the damaged face had traveled hours to visit the hospital in the city. Every rooming house turned him away. Finally, one tenderhearted woman agreed to let him rest on her porch and offered him a cot for the night.
On his next trip, he brought the family a big fish and a bucket of oysters.
Other times, the fish and oysters arrived by mail.
Visiting a friend’s greenhouse, the woman asked why her most beautiful chrysanthemum was in an old, dented bucket.
“I ran short of pots, but I knew the blooms would be beautiful. It’s only here until I can put it out in the garden.”
The woman who had housed the old fisherman was reminded of the man who spent the night on her cot. God might have run short of beautiful bodies, but the old man’s beautiful soul would one day find new soil in heaven.
1 Corinthians 5:17 says:
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
When you come to Christ, you are a new creation. You might still be in the same old pot, but your beauty is beyond compare.
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