Did you ever see a plant in the basement? Wherever it is placed, it will try to reach toward the window. Ever see a plant in a dark place? It will always try to reach upward toward the sun. Ever see a sunflower in the morning, bowing its head toward the east, and then following the sun all through the day, and then bowing its head finally toward the west? Something on the inside of that flower, something that God put in it makes it reach upward and heavenward. All of God’s creation is like that!

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That’s the way God made us; with our heads upward, and the ambition of our souls heavenward, looking toward God’s Son. And these flowers so colorful, and so beautiful, and so fragrant, and so attractive, God’s blessing and gift to the world, to enrich our souls and our lives: and thus it is, God says, with the Christian. He is to exemplify, in a beautiful and glorious life, all of the graces that God hath bestowed upon the flowers of the field. Other people worried, other people anxious, other people full of care; not the beautiful life of a Christian. “Consider the lilies of the field: they toil not, they spin not, yet I say unto thee, Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these” [Matthew 6:29]. The beautiful life of the child of God, looking in faith to the Son, blessing the whole world.