“With wildflowers the fields God has arrayed; In their beauty His glory is displayed! They are here for a season to unfold, then they are gone no longer to behold, but someday soon the earth shall be remade, and the wildflowers shall never again fade! Their beauty shall blaze forth eternally with more splendor for every eye to see!”

-Perry Boardman

What is your life all about?

Take a deep breath and allow yourself to be honest as you read this post. Take a couple steps away from your life and all its craziness for a moment and try to allow your brain to think deeply and with clarity. Pray and ask God to show you what He wants you to take away from this time. Some of the things we are going to talk about are hard to admit. That’s ok. You won’t get anywhere, though, if you don’t allow yourself to be honest about your life and what you are chasing after. Join me today as we look deeper into what it means to be flowers of the field and what it means to live a life that is actually important and meaningful. Please remember that this is not all up to you. Jesus has extended so much grace, help, and love to you, and He never expects you to be perfect. He does want you to live your best life, so let’s get started. Think again about your answer to the question above and ask yourself:

Is what your life is about actually important?

Have you ever found yourself in a moment of deep mental thinking where you truly looked at your life and its significance? What I mean is, have you ever truly wondered what your life is all about and if it is about something that matters?

As we get older, these are questions we need to be asking ourselves. If we want to live our best lives, it is vital that we know what our best lives should even look like. If we want to live a life of importance, we have to know what is actually important. If we want to chase after things that matter, we have to know what these things that matter actually are.

So what matters to you?

In our journey of living a life of meaning, this is the first question we should ask ourselves. If you want to know what matters to you, I suggest looking at your thoughts and schedule.

The things you think the most about are the things that hold significance to you. Maybe your mind is filled with thoughts of how to do well on your next test, assignments, or class. School matters to you. Maybe you’re constantly thinking about what people think about you. Acceptance from those around you matters to you. Maybe your mind ruminates on anxious thoughts about your future. Your future matters to you. Maybe you are constantly thinking about how to be a better athlete. Your sport matters to you. Maybe you are filled with ideas of your next project. Creating things matters to you.

We all live extremely busy and hectic lives, so there’s a reason you allow certain things to take up any extra time you have in your crazy schedule: they matter to you. Maybe you are an athlete. Sports take up a lot your time. It matters to you. Maybe it’s your friends and family that you make time for amidst the business. They matter to you. It could be social media that you turn to in your moments of spare time. That matters to you. Maybe you wake up fifteen minutes early to make sure your hair and make up are on point. Your appearance matters to you. Hopefully, you adjust your schedule to allow time to go to youth group. That is something that matters to you.

These are only a few examples, but I really encourage you to think about your thoughts and your schedule because, oftentimes, these are key indicators to what is important to you.

Now are you ready for a harder question?

Do the things that you think matter actually matter for eternity?

Now, don’t get me wrong, a lot of the things that matter to us are not bad. Sports are not bad. School is not bad. Friends and family are certainly not bad. It’s bad when you chase after these things above your Savior. In order to live a life that is full of meaning, one that matters, the thing we chase first and foremost before everything else has to be Jesus.

We each only have exactly one life. Each day, each moment, leads us closer to when our time on this earth is over. That could be tomorrow or fifty years from now; we don’t know. But we do know that one day all our laughs, good times, good moments, excitements, and dreams of this world will be no more. All of our struggles, fights, tears, sweat, and pain of this world will be gone. The successes and failures, the fame and enemies, the love and hatred, it will all be no more.

All of a sudden, it will just be you and your Creator. Just you and the one who made the stars. And He’ll ask you what right you have to get into His house. I pray and hope that you know the answer to that question is salvation in Jesus. But no matter what, there’s no going back in that moment. There’s no switching what you built your life around. You can’t change what you spent each day focusing on. You can’t start over on what you chased after. It’s just over. And there you’ll be, standing face to face with the God who fought tooth and nail for you to be able to have a seat at His table. You’ll be standing in front of the one who bled and died in order for you to be made right with Him. He’s the one that rose from the grave so that you could rise up to a new, beautiful, and meaningful life. The question is, did you step into this life of meaning Jesus so graciously provided for you when you were on earth? What did you live for?

It is scary to think that you could get to that moment at heaven’s gate and realize that you spent your life chasing after shallow, empty things that you thought mattered to you. It’s a heavy thought to think that you did not step into your purpose and place Jesus won for you as a child of light while you lived in the darkness of the world. What if you get to that moment, beholding the King of the universe, and you realize that you wasted your life? That’s a terrifying thought, and it is one that I’ve dealt with.

There was a time in my life when God graciously revealed to me that I was wasting the time He had given me. In that moment, I realized that none of what I cared about, none of what I built my life on, and none of what I chased after mattered. I was living a life that I was never created to live. Truthfully, I just stood there, in tears before my Savior with no idea what to do. Maybe that’s you. Amazingly, God was not condemning me or shaming me for wasting my life and not living for Him. He was showing me that the life I was leading was leading nowhere, and if I wanted to live a life that actually mattered, I had to stop chasing after the things of the world and just chase Him.

When you chase Jesus, you will be living what you are made for, and you will be satisfied.

I know now that the only thing that will allow me to live my “best life” is Jesus. If I am chasing after my Savior, then I will have a life of meaning, significance, and beauty. When I walk through heaven’s gate, I want to do it knowing that I did everything I could in my lifetime to follow my Savior. I want to know that my life mattered. The only way for this to happen is if I surrender it all to Jesus.

Friend, I don’t want you to get to the end of your life and realize that you wasted it. When you walk through eternity’s doors, I want you to look back at a life that was full of meaning, importance, and beauty.

This is a wake-up call. This is a cry to change and action.

Let’s stop wasting our lives.

We are the flowers of the field. Flowers are beautiful, splashes of color and uniqueness in an otherwise bland field. Flowers reflect the creativity, beauty, and glory of the Creator. Research shows that flowers make people happy. While this is all wonderful, the real reason we can be called the flowers of the field is because of three powerful, eye-opening verses in Isaiah:

“A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, and the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever” (Isaiah 40: 6-8, ESV).

Flowers don’t last, and neither do we.

Peter quotes this passage in 1 Peter 1: 24, reiterating its importance: “for ‘All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass and the flower falls” (ESV).

Job 14:2 says, “We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear” (NLT).

Psalms 103: 15 also compares us to flowers: “Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die” (NLT).

Compared to eternity, our lives are as fleeting as the life of a wildflower. It’s time to make the best use of the time we have (Ephesians 5:16). We are young and full of life and passion. Let’s utilize that now.

Don’t wait until you are an adult to get serious about your relationship with Jesus (1 Timothy 4: 12). Think of all that would be wasted for eternity, all the missed opportunities, if you centered your teen years on things that don’t matter. Chase Jesus now. He loves you so much, and He is longing for you to accept His help in living a life full of meaning, importance, and beauty. Through His grace and strength, we can do this.

It is time for you and me to stand up and declare that we are done wasting this life given to us, and we aren’t chasing anything besides Jesus Christ.

That’s what this website is about: learning how to live a life that chases after Jesus. I invite you to join me at flowersofthefield.blog in this journey of living in the light and beauty of our Savior. I’m going to post new content often, and I hope it helps you know your Savior better, love Him more, and live the life you were created to live.

Let’s be flowers of the field that use whatever beauty God has given us to live a life that matters and points to Jesus. And let’s start right now, wherever you may be planted.