Luke 12:27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say to you… Dr. Chalmers luxuriated among the plants and flowers of the season, and delighted to examine minutely the structure and the beauties of some humble production that would have escaped the notice of a less practised eye. He said to a friend one day — after he had been rapt in admiration of nature and nature's God — "I love to dwell on the properties of one flower at a time; to fix my mind on it exclusively until I feel that it has taken complete hold of my mind. This is a peculiarity of my constitution. I must have concentration of thought on any given thing, and not be diverted from it." The friend's attention was arrested in the garden by a sunflower of large dimensions and exquisite culouring. He (Dr. Chalmers) said, with deep emotion., "Oh, that we could so open our hearts to the beams of the Sun of Righteousness!" It was in such scenes that one not only saw but felt that the train of thought was heavenward — that his heart and his treasure were in heaven. Parallel Verses KJV: Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. |
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