The above picture is my Bromeliad, right after I purchased it. This beautiful plant has a special place at The Retreat in Cole Camp. Last week when I was there, I noticed the beautiful bloom was looking different. So, like most earthly things I have a question about, I make a visit to Google. Did I expect the striking bloom to last forever? I really did not know what to expect, BUT I do now.
After reading an interesting fact about my plant, that fact led to an incredible spiritual adventure, one of life and death.
The dying bloom is a signal to the plant that it is time to produce NEW LIFE. HOW CAN DEATH PRODUCE LIFE? That is a great question. As I read the information, my thoughts took a spiritual journey back in time. This time was the special moment that I, as an eight-year-old girl, dying in my sins, saw my need for Jesus. He sweetly breathing into my soul LIFE, NEW LIFE IN HIM! Through HIS DEATH, I was given LIFE.
After this journey back in time, I picked up my greatest research tool, God’s Word and this is what I found.
John 5:24, “I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.” WOW, His love changed EVERYTHING!
John3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” God made a way, delivering us from the bondage of sin(death) and giving us heaven(life).
Romans 6:8-10, “Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.” Jesus being victorious over death gives us life…. imagine that!
My Bromeliad, it is just a plant, a small part of God’s creation; but with that creation, HE spoke to me. God used the concern for a plant to again show me HIS UNEXPLAINABLE, UNEXHAUSTABLE LOVE that he has for us!
And added note on the Bromeliad……Bring on the “pups” that is what the new little lives are called.
