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Apr 3, 2020 · Jesus taught us to "consider the lilies of the field" as a reminder of God's sovereignty and faithfulness. Learn what Jesus meant by this phrase and how it applies to our lives today.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin. The Novum Testamentum Graece text is: καὶ περὶ ἐνδύματος τί μεριμνᾶτε; καταμάθετε τὰ κρίνα τοῦ ἀγροῦ πῶς αὐξάνουσιν. οὐ κοπιῶσιν οὐδὲ νήθουσιν. A similar passage appears in Luke 12:27, which in the King James Version reads:
Jan 4, 2022 · Jesus teaches us to trust God as our provider and not worry about our basic needs by comparing us to the lilies of the field. Learn how the lilies of the field illustrate God's care, our value, and our purpose in this life.
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It’s interesting to me that Jesus instructed people to turn their attention to nature to learn aspects of God’s character and the ways He works. I have often felt the Lord use nature or time in the garden to speak truths into my heart or tangibly remind me of truths that need freshening in my perspective. Jesus pointed to the lilies and the birds t...
God sees the smallest creation and He most assuredly sees you and me. He will provide and care for us as we trust Him. All the worry for our basic needs won’t add a thing to our lives and in fact most often robs the sweetness out of life. This verse flies in the face of the “God helps those who help themselves” mindset. God tends to those who trust...
And in those seasons when you know the basics aren’t covered but seek to bless another along the way, I have always seen the Lord come through gloriously. Sometimes it was an endurance-building wait, but He has never disappointed me! So next time your attention is captured by a flower, remember Jesus exhorting you to trust Him with your concerns an...
Jesus tells us to learn from the lilies of the field, which neither toil nor spin, yet are clothed by God. He invites us to seek first His kingdom and righteousness, and trust Him to provide for our needs.
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Lilies of the field stand rooted in place and grow without doing any work or spinning any clothes for themselves. Still, as Jesus will say in the following verse, they are dressed in great beauty. They are clothed exactly as God the Father wants them to be.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Consider the lilies of the field — Observe not only the animal, but, what is yet much lower, the vegetable part of the creation, and mark how the flowers of the meadows grow; they toil not — To prepare the materials of their covering; nor do they spin — Or weave them into garments.
