Color the World

Once upon a time several years ago, I think before my first inspirational novel, Scent of Lilacs, was published, I played with the idea of writing a book of devotions for the casual hiker. I hoped to come up with fifty-two, one a week. Devotional Thoughts for Hikers. Well, I might have needed a better title than that. I wrote a dozen and came up with ideas for maybe a dozen more, but then I got busy writing novels and shoved the devotional book idea back on the someday shelf. I have three of these devotional thoughts on my website. The following is one of them, but today on my daily walk with Frankie, I came across this little purple flower that was the inspiration for the following devotional thoughts. So I decided to share it with you tonight.

Color The World

“The greatest way to witness is through the life you live. Let the radiance of your Christian life be such that it will make [others] ask questions about your [faith].” ―Billy Graham,

I’m a wildflower nut, even when wildflower is a polite word for a weed that just happens to have some kind of bloom. Even a tiny blossom in the grass that hardly looks important enough to have a name can stop me in my tracks for a closer look. One day as I walked across the fresh spring grass in the pasture, I spotted a tiny blue bloom I hadn’t noticed before. The flower was not as big around as a pencil eraser, and the four little petals were a delicate blue. The flower seemed to be lifting its head bravely out of the grass to reach for the sun. Yet because it was so small, its color was almost drowned out by the green of the grass blades. Then when I stood up, I noticed there wasn’t just one of these little flowers. There were hundreds of them. So many that when I looked across the field, the ground turned a hazy blue.

As Christians we can sometimes feel like that small, insignificant flower thinking that we can’t make a difference in the world of grass blades around us. Yet if we open our lives to the “Son” we can make a difference no matter how small, and when we join together with all the other Christians in the world around us I believe we can change the color of the world.

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love. …I Corinthians 16:12-14 (NKJ)

Do you think Christians can be an influence for good in the world?

As always thanks for reading, but before you go, I want to know what you think. Would you like me to share some of the other hiker devotions I have written? Don’t worry about hurting my feelings if you’d rather I would focus on other things. Just say so. I want my blog posts to be something you look forward to reading and I love it when you join in the conversation. If some of you think it would be fun, I could post one of the devotionals once a month for a while. Maybe the last Sunday of the month.