“They’re for you!” said my six-year-old son, Mark, as he handed me a wilted bunch of dandelions.
“Why, thank you,” I said as he proudly gave them to me. “I think they need some water. Why don’t you get a glass for them.”
Mark quickly got a glass of water so the flowers could “have a drink,” and we put them on the table for the whole family to see. Then Mark went back outside to play.
I thought about that bouquet of dandelions that Mark had given me. Dandelions are everywhere - in the city, in the country and along the roadsides. I don’t think I’ve been anyplace where they don’t grow. The yellow flowers are such a bright color and pretty that they attract our attention. Yet, in just a few days the pretty flowers are gone, and in their places are gray puffballs that children like to pick and blow. Isaiah writes in the Bible of the flower fading (Isaiah 40:77The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. (Isaiah 40:7)). How important it is to have that new life in Christ “that [fades] not away” (1 Peter 1:44To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, (1 Peter 1:4)).
The roots of dandelions grow so very deep that they seem to be a part of the earth. If we know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour, we become “one with Him.” He has given us a new life that cannot be separated from Him. The Lord Jesus said, “I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand” (John 10:2828And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (John 10:28)).
Do you have that “new life”? Are your sins washed away? Time is short, so don’t put it off. Accept Jesus as your Saviour today. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)).
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