We've been enjoying the flowers at our house for the last several weeks. We've got a good amount of roses, some ground cover flowers, some flowering bushes, as well as some hanging baskets. The bright colors somehow bring life and energy to the soul. Then you add some of the fragrances along with it and receive even more refreshment.
Every flower starts out as a bud. Buds tend to be somewhat colorless and boring. Then the sun connects with them and they open up in beauty releasing their invigorating fragrance. I've been blessed to witness this happening spiritually in the life of a young lady who is going into the 8th grade. A few weeks ago she approached me after church with a big smile on her face and told me she had made the decision to be baptized. Then Sunday morning I saw her at the ABC so I talked with her and her mother about a time to start studying in preparation for baptism. Again she had a bright smile on her face as we discussed her baptism. At the end of our discussion I invited them to come to attend the Wildfire series at the Greeley Church. Well, they've attended both nights and each night she has excitedly come and shown me the notes that she has taken during the message. Last night's message was about the Sabbath so I asked her if she'd ever heard these things before. She told me she had heard a couple of things but had never heard most of it. Then she proceeded to tell me that she was going to go home and study the notes and Scriptures she had written down some more.
What a blessing it is to watch a bud transform into a bright bloom, releasing sweet fragrance in glory to God. She has turned toward Jesus the Son of Righteousness causing her spiritual life to bloom just as the flowers bloom when they receive the rays of the sun. Philippians 1:6
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