Devotionals

Scripture Reading: Habukkak 3:3

Have you ever had one of those days when everything was just dreary? The weather is cold and wet, the sun doesn’t shine, and on top of that, you just have the blues. I was reading through an old journal the other day about just such a day. On that day, I was riding down a muddy, dirt road feeling like I had nothing to praise God for on such a day.

I rode along surveying a tract of land thinking about how the field needed to be mowed. Suddenly, in the midst of the rain and the mud, I noticed a bright yellow flower doing what God intended for it to do. Habukkak 3:3 says, “…His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.” Rain may have been falling, and there may have been mud all around, but in the midst of it all, that flower was still shining bright declaring the glory of the Lord!

How could my heart not smile? That flower was my own special delivery from God. I passed this same field every single day, and not once had I ever seen this flower before. It wasn’t a rose or even a carnation. As a matter of fact, any other day I would have called it a weed. But what made the difference that day? What made the weed a flower?

Has your child ever brought you a weed thinking it was a beautiful flower? And in your mind, didn’t that weed become precious in your sight just then? Just a touch of love turns weeds into flowers! As I contemplated the thought that God’s love had just turned a weed to a flower in my mind, God brought these words to my remembrance: “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.”

Should circumstances really make weeds turn into flowers, or vice versa? God’s love is the same yesterday, today and forever. If weeds were flowers on that day because of a touch of His love, aren’t they always flowers? They are if I can truly learn to be content in whatever state of circumstances I’m in.

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• Posted by: Karen Tinsley Nelson