Flowers – God’s amazing creations

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to take a short trip, and decided that I would use the time to spend some “alone-time” with God. As part of that (and for the first time in my life), I spent many hours in parks and gardens around London and Birmingham, just strolling and taking time to appreciate the beautiful flowers that God created.  

Walking round the gardens, I was amazed at the variety of different flowers that kept appearing round every corner I turned. Just when I thought there couldn’t possibly be any other shape of flower, or any other combination of colours, a new one appeared. It led me to wonder: Why did God create so many different flowers?

I wonder if it’s because He wanted to show us that His power, His mind, His creativity, His provision, and His mercy know no bounds? The Bible tells us that He is capable of “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20). When we think that we’ve seen the fullness of all the blessings God has to give, we haven’t. There’s always infinitely more that God is capable of giving.

Looking at the flowers, each a little masterpiece in its own right, it was (to my eyes at least) plainly obvious how right the Bible is when it says that God’s power and divine nature can be clearly seen from what has been made (Romans 1:20). Have a look here if you’re interested in some of the flowers that I saw. It’s not so hard to see evidence of a divine Creator if we look with a heart open to seeing it.

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Photographs taken in July 2010, in Regent’s Park (London) and Winterbourne Botanic Gardens (Birmingham).