Daffodils and His Promise

 

My favorite flower in the entire world is daffodils. I think that most flowers are beautiful, but I absolutely love daffodils. Their bright yellow color is so bold and beautiful. I am amazed at how they just one day show up. It seems that at every year, right about this time, I am struggling with something and the Lord uses daffodils to remind me that things will come together, everything will work out. It is like all of a sudden out of nowhere appear daffodils. Daffodils are a promise to me, that God will create and has created something beautiful in our time of struggling. That is one reason, I believe that daffodils are the best. Out of a cold winter with ice, and snow comes something so unexpectedly bright and beautiful. Isn't it the same in our lives? When we are going through a "valley" where God seems impossible to reach and we don't hear His voice, it is only for a time. In life we will go through valleys and seasons, but God has promised us that this is normal. There is a time for everything and in time, He will make it beautiful. A daffodil only blooms at the very beginning of spring. After being under the freezing ice and cold snow, it pushes through the earth and reveals itself, in its time. Whatever you are going through right now, know that God has planned it and we should rejoice in the fact that He has planned it and makes it beautiful when the time is right. 

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

"To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:

A time to be born,
    And a time to die;
A time to plant,
    And a time to pluck what is planted;

A time to kill,
    And a time to heal;
A time to break down,
    And a time to build up; 

 A time to weep,
    And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
    And a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones,
    And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace,
    And a time to refrain from embracing; 

 A time to gain,
    And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
    And a time to throw away; 

 A time to tear,
    And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence,
    And a time to speak; 

 A time to love,
    And a time to hate;
A time of war,
    And a time of peace.

What profit has the worker from that in which he labors?  I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.

I know that whatever God does,
It shall be forever.
Nothing can be added to it,
And nothing taken from it.
God does it, that men should fear before Him. 

 That which is has already been,
And what is to be has already been;
And God requires an account of what is past."