THE FLOWER POT AND THE WATER STREAM
A little boy once bought a flower pot, placed it in his garden, and grew a flowering plant in it. He then began watering his plant every day. Despite his daily watering, the plant did not bloom and the leaves and stem wilted. He was unable to figure out the cause. He moved the pot around his garden to check if the plant grew, adjusting it to the sunshine. Even then, the plant did not grow. So he was concerned, and then he spotted something: there was a tiny crack in the pot. So even when he moved and repositioned the pot in different spots across the garden, the water spilled through the pot. When he finally discovered this, he decided to plant his flower plant next to a water stream in his garden, and it began to bloom and flourish like no other plant he had ever seen.
The world we live in is changing quite fast. People are never content with the world they live in and are constantly demanding changes. Our lifestyle, our culture, the people around us, and the technology, all change continuously. This changing world is comparable to the flower pot that the child purchased, with a crack in it but which he was unaware of. We spend a lot of our life attempting to make empty wells provide for us. You can’t adjust your life according to the changes around us and make this broken world offer long-lasting joy, just like you can’t make a cracked flower pot hold water despite adjusting it to different places in the garden because reliance on this world only results in a sense of emptiness.
However, our God remains unchanging, and our lives are filled with fulfillment when we rely on Christ, the fountain of living waters. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.” (Jeremiah 17:7-8). According to God’s word, people who trust our Unchanging God in this changing world are like trees planted along the riverbank, so even when the world around them changes and tries to make their lives worse, they will not be bothered by those changes because they have an Unchanging God beside them who never leaves them, and whose unchanging nature that is, his love, mercy, and grace makes our lives satisfied when we rely on Him.
Grace George
Grace George is an Agricultural Entomologist. She is married to Clinton K Reston and have a daughter, Hazel and currently lives in Halifax.
