19. God’s Handwriting

“Jesus stooped down, and with His finger wrote on the ground.”
A poet once said, “Flowers are Nature’s scripture.” I should like to change that a little, keeping the same meaning, but so that you can see it more plainly— “Flowers are God’s Handwriting.” So, when Jesus said, “Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin”: He meant that God had stooped down and written lessons on the ground for us to learn. In every flower God has written something, and if we are wise enough to find it, we shall be wiser still for remembering it.
Let me take three flowers, and tell you the lesson which I think God has written in them.