We Need Each Other to Produce Seed
A flower's beauty and fragrance is designed specifically by the Creator to attract specific types of pollinators.
Color, fragrance and structure tell the observer of this intentional design if you look closely.
But why is important for a flower to attract pollinators? This is the means of producing after its own kind. Can it do this completely on its own? No!
Just like a flower that requires visitation by an animal that has special features that align with its structure or cling to its pollen, so the Christian life is created to draw others in to the fragrance of Christ while benefiting itself by those times of feeding.
Those that visit the flowers have a return for visiting the flower and the higher the return the more apt they are to make a stop at a flower.
I watch out my front door in the early morning as a hummingbird makes his rounds to all my flowers. I have a feeder right at his level, yet he visits the flowers whose structures are specifically designed to house his long beak. He beats his wings to stay afloat in the thick air that surrounds him.
He knows that these visits are his sustenance. He makes a deliberate path to those flowers that have the highest pay off of nectar. But I notice, he wants the real deal. He could hover or perch at my feeder all day long and have a supply of food from a lifeless feeder, however, he must know that he was designed to feed from a specific well.
As believers, we provide diverse nourishment to the body. Each of us has his or her own area of giftings and as others come and replenish their weary souls by the fragrance of Christ that they see in us, they are satisfied and we are blessed!
Like a flower who is visited by a pollinator, the end goal is seed production. The more fragrance, nectar and pollen they produce, the more potential they have to produce seed.
We need each other to produce the seeds that we will scatter out of our lives.
Notice the multiple stamen on this flower, the rose of sharon that produce a large amount of pollen. This pollen is transferred over and over again to its fellow flowers as bees, birds and other pollinators visit its luxuriously appealing blossom.
Father, we pray that our lives would be a fragrant offering to you and that we would draw others in by the fragrance of Christ that they smell.
May we not avoid fellowship with other believers but visit one another, even more as we see the day of Your return approaching.
Color, fragrance and structure tell the observer of this intentional design if you look closely.
But why is important for a flower to attract pollinators? This is the means of producing after its own kind. Can it do this completely on its own? No!
Just like a flower that requires visitation by an animal that has special features that align with its structure or cling to its pollen, so the Christian life is created to draw others in to the fragrance of Christ while benefiting itself by those times of feeding.
But thanks be to God,
who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession.
And through us spreads the fragrance
of the knowledge of Him everywhere.
Those that visit the flowers have a return for visiting the flower and the higher the return the more apt they are to make a stop at a flower.
I watch out my front door in the early morning as a hummingbird makes his rounds to all my flowers. I have a feeder right at his level, yet he visits the flowers whose structures are specifically designed to house his long beak. He beats his wings to stay afloat in the thick air that surrounds him.
He knows that these visits are his sustenance. He makes a deliberate path to those flowers that have the highest pay off of nectar. But I notice, he wants the real deal. He could hover or perch at my feeder all day long and have a supply of food from a lifeless feeder, however, he must know that he was designed to feed from a specific well.
As believers, we provide diverse nourishment to the body. Each of us has his or her own area of giftings and as others come and replenish their weary souls by the fragrance of Christ that they see in us, they are satisfied and we are blessed!
Like a flower who is visited by a pollinator, the end goal is seed production. The more fragrance, nectar and pollen they produce, the more potential they have to produce seed.We need each other to produce the seeds that we will scatter out of our lives.
Notice the multiple stamen on this flower, the rose of sharon that produce a large amount of pollen. This pollen is transferred over and over again to its fellow flowers as bees, birds and other pollinators visit its luxuriously appealing blossom.
Father, we pray that our lives would be a fragrant offering to you and that we would draw others in by the fragrance of Christ that they smell.
May we not avoid fellowship with other believers but visit one another, even more as we see the day of Your return approaching.
And let us consider how to stir up one another
to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together,
as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another,
and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Hebrews 10:24-25
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