Consider The Lilies

What did the Lord mean when He said “consider, the lilies, they don’t toil or spin, but even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these and Behold the fouls of the air: for they sew not, neither do they gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they”?

Were not these examples given, to the end that we should not be taking thought, nor be anxious about our everyday needs. When we are anxious it is a sign of unbelief as to who we are, and how we are. Scripture calls it an evil heart of unbelief. The unfortunate thing, is in most assemblies, worrying, would not be considered a big sin. It certainly would not be up there with sexual immorality or drunkenness and the like. When in reality, the truth be known, sin is sin, there is no big or little sin to God. To be anxious about these things, is to be in unbelief of the very words of our Lord. Most assemblies teach a literal interpretation of scripture, yet do not see the need to take this literally. When the Hebrew children were to go in and possess the land, they were worried about what confronted them, the giants and the like. They saw themselves as grasshoppers in the face of what lie before them, because they made the mistake of thinking the battle was their own and not God’s. As I said before, This was defined in the new testament, as an evil heart of unbelief.

Whenever we find ourselves in fear and anxiety, we are in doubt of who we are as children of the most high God and how we are as a result. The cares of this world, can choke the word, as weeds do the plants in a garden, and the word or the truth becomes unfruitful. Worry does not testify that God is our source. It is not a testimony that no weapon formed against us can prosper, or that all things work in our life to the Glory of God and all things work together for the good, to those that Love Him and are called according to His purpose. It is not witnessing to people that God goes before me and is my rear guard and His hand is upon me. How about - you can have no power over me except it be given you from above, as was said of our Lord, to Pilot. We have learned to toil and spin in Adam. The very instant he was put out of the garden, he was enslaved to the earth and would return to the earth. He would become earthy in his nature, even as the beast. Survival would become his mentality, fear would dominate his life. He would eat his bread in the sweat of his face.

The lily grows in the garden of God. It need not toil. It has within itself all that it needs to blossom into the beautiful flower, it was meant to be. Our Lord was called the lily of the valley. He came saying, fear not. Come unto me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. He came into this earthly realm, the valley of the shadow of death, and He planted Himself. Now He is our life and we have entered back into the paradise or garden of God, through His atoning death and regenerating life. We now partake of Him who is the tree of life. He is our source and supply, if we believe. Most, who call on the name of the Lord, really don’t believe that He supplies all our needs according to His riches in glory, most think it is pretty much up to them. They think, like everyone else, that they are at the mercy of the dictates of the system, as though they were not from above but of this world.

Even an ambassador from another country has all His needs supplied by the country he represents. Are we not ambassadors for Christ, from a heavenly country and of the new Jerusalem which is from above. Though we are in the world, we are not of the world. We are to seek that Kingdom, which we are a part of and believe it to be manifested in our everyday lives, (thy Kingdom come thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven), and all those things shall be added.

Amen

Art Groesbeck