Tag: cut flower

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse.

Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, love the Lord your God, obey him, and remain faithful (literally, “cling”) to him.

For he is your life… (Deuteronomy 30:19–20)

I’ve been thinking about our relationship with God lately, and I got the image of a cut flower and a potted flower.

Both are beautiful.

But one is already dead because it’s cut off from its source of life. It’s cursed, so to speak, because it’s cut off from its roots.

It’s the same with us and God.

Cut off from him, we are cursed and already dead.

But if we are connected to him, drawing life from him daily, we flourish.

How then do we remain connected to him?

When Paul quotes this passage in Romans 10, he points us to Jesus, admonishing us to trust in him and make him our Lord. (Romans 10:6-13).

So let’s choose life.

Choose Jesus, loving him, obeying him as our Lord, and clinging to him each day.