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I could not contain my feelings. The love I felt was so powerful that I was overcome. In fact, for the rest of the day, I felt somewhat removed from this mortal sphere. My soul vibrated with the message I had just written, for my own suffering and weakness had been taken in hand by the Wonderful Counselor, and where once there was darkness, light by light, strand by strand, he rewove the fabric of my heart with threads of purest gold, so that my affections and sympathies have been, in a marvelous manner, enlarged and re-trained to make me more like him.

This is the way of the Master. He tells us plainly that he has given us weakness to bring us to him. When we come unto him, he teaches, counsels, and heals us, replacing evil with good, pouring himself into us, a spiritual transfusion where his light replaces our darkness. The light he has put into us works its way through everything we know and feel and draws us to yet greater light.

One day, if we continue, we will be like him, for his light will have chased every trace of darkness from us, and will have drawn into us all the light he has. Links to Consider the Lilies recordings and sheet music, click here.

Writing "Consider the Lilies". Writing "Consider the Lilies" At the time I wrote "Consider the Lilies," my wife, Melanie and I had spent five years now thirty-two following the Lord's commandment to put the kingdom of God first, believing that he would add everything else we needed.

Once the melody had become locked into my consciousness, words began to form in my mind, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, how they grow. As quickly as I could write, the words continued, "Consider the birds in the sky, How they fly, how they fly. The words kept coming, "Consider the sheep of his fold, How they follow where he leads. I must ask, are the trees lining the road oak or maple? Thank you! I do know about that song. It was written by one of my favs, Rusty Goodman.

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Skip to content. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading This entry was posted in Christian Music and tagged Christ , comfort , God's promises , grace , lyrics. Bookmark the permalink. March 22, at pm. Mike M says:. Thank you Teresa. But we can never be certain, of course; and the point made by Jesus would apply equally well to any of the many beautiful wildflowers with which God has graced our world!

He begins by extolling the permanent quality of heavenly treasures compared to earthly things: Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew The final sentence puts the focus, however, on the practical point of the passage: Where is your heart? Material things themselves, impermanent as they may be, are neither good nor bad in themselves. Our problem with them arises from how we choose to look at them: The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.

If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! Matthew Jesus brings up one of His favorite metaphors, spiritual blindness.

The person who chooses to see only the material world is trapped within its mean, petty confines; the person who chooses to follow after perishable material things will give up the eternal spiritual treasures. Jesus could heal physical blindness, but He could not against their will change the hearts of the spiritually blind.

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. Matthew As the story goes, a little boy was asked to explain why we do not practice bigamy today as in the ancient times; his answer was the verse above, "No man can serve two masters! If we are part of Christ's church, we are part of the bride of Christ, 2 Corinthians and He is as jealous as any other husband not to share her with another.

We cannot be married to Christ and to the material world--we have to choose. We will choose to be filled either with light or with darkness; to pursue the perishable or the imperishable; to see or to remain blind. So what is the lesson of the lilies? Trust that God will care for you, and accept with gratitude His provision of simple needs. Now, we do not see the lilies at work, but we understand that they are always active, processing the sun's energy, the air around them, and the nutrients of the soil into the necessary food to continue their short lives.

The birds of the air, too, are among the busiest of God's creatures.