Flowers...beauty and purpose

The other day a welder was working at my home and we were talking about some of the different fruit trees that are on the property (we have over 100 different types) and I showed him a passion fruit (maricuayo)which is not a tree but a vine. After trying the fruit he said “ In my 53 years I have never tasted anything as good as this”. Then we got looking at the exotic flowers that are on the giant passion fruit plants we have (each fruit weighs over 1 kg) and commenting on how wonderfully God made all things. I have seen the perfection of small wild flowers in the fields, and in the strange orchids that hang out of trees. I know that we have a God who likes beauty and detail. All of nature gives us the opportunity to see God in His creative beauty and gives us an idea of what He wants to do in our lives. This welder, even though he’s not a professing Christian, couldn’t help but see the hand of God in the flowers.God wants to make our lives just like these flowers, each with it’s own particular beauty and uniqueness. This passion fruit is one of the most exotic flowers thatI have seen, while a banana flower is of the most productive, with one flower giving up to 20kg of fruit. In our own lives it is the same... some are more breathtaking while others are more productive. What God wants more than anything is that we can show His beauty in our lives and bring people’s attention to God. If a single flower can make as man think in God how much more should our lives be a sweet smelling fragrance to our Lord Jesus.