Flowers of the field...

We got the opportunity to visit the rose garden with family this week. Here are some of pictures we shot:

 

After I read the scriptures posted below, these beautiful roses in bloom became all the more colorful to me. I can apply the beauty of the rose garden and God's Word in my life as this; In this world we are just like the flowers, delicate, easily bruised, and quickly fading.  We are only given one season to bloom and it is up to us to bloom with grace and beauty for God's glory!

                                                                                             ♥  Katie

                                                

Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.

Song of Solomon 2:12

Jesus said “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. 

They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 

‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  

For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. 

Each day has enough trouble of its own.  Matthew 6:28-33

The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed. He made known his ways to Moses,

 his deeds to the people of Israel: The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, 

abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; 

he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. 

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear* him; 

as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. 

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear* him; 

for he knows how we are formed,  he remembers that we are dust.   

The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;   

the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.   

But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’s love is with those who fear* him, 

and his righteousness with their children’s children— 

with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts. Psalm 103:6-18

*Fear: have great love and respect for him.