GOD'S SIGNS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 4, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 40.

GOD'S SIGNS.

GOD looks up at us from every sweet flower that blooms. The beauty that fills our earth is a pledge to us of God's thought and love for us. We all know the familiar story of the great traveler who was saved from perishing on the desert where he had fallen, faint and famishing for water, by seeing a little speck of green moss peeping up out of the hot sand. This gleam of life assured him that God must be near, thus putting new hope into his heart, and giving him strength to rise and struggle on until he found water. Every plant or flower should remind us of God, make us reverent. A writer says:—

"We are not left of God So long as a rose blooms at our window-pane; So long as the sun shines, and the soft rain Calls forth the early violet from the sod. "If but a wild brier by our pathway nod, After its winter death wakened again, Seeing its life we may forget our pain Of unbelief. Who brings forth life but God? "He stains with tender tint the lily's lip; Feeds with incessant care the insect crew; Drops honey for the wandering bee to sip, In a white chalice set with pearls of dew. The glowworm hath its lamp; the firefly's light Is but a pledge of love writ on the night."

—Selected.