Consider the Lilies

"Aren't those lilies beautiful?" I asked someone this week. "I like the stalks," she replied.

What a strange answer! I mean, who looks at the stalks? It's the flowers that you notice. It's the flowers that are pretty, not the stalks. But her comment made me notice the stalks. And yes, the stalks were neat!

What would flowers be with no stalks? Stalks give support and support is very important.

Some people are like lilies. Their role/job stands out and is noticed by most people. Then there are people whose roles are more like the stalk. They give support. Their job is so important, even when it goes unnoticed.

Do you have a support role? Does what you do seem unnoticed? Know that the God who made the lilies sees you. He sees both the "lilies" and the "stalks", and they are both the same to Him. They all are all noticed by Him and their jobs have equal significance.

Have a look around? What jobs/roles are unnoticed to you? Maybe it's time to pray for those people and give them some appreciation!

But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.--Exodus 17:12