"For whatsoever is not of faith is sin."Romans 14:23
This verse has often bewildered me until recently. God desires that we be totally dependent upon Him. When we are independent, we are acting wholly within ourselves and faith is absent. As I watch my flowers grow I am reminded that they exemplify total dependence upon God. They cannot germinate unless God grants the proper conditions. They cannot grow and thrive unless God sends rain and sunshine. They are totally at God's mercy. If He should withhold the rain or send a blast of wind to uproot them, there is no rebellion among the plant kingdom. They quietly submit to His plan. They do not spend their days worrying about what is on the morrow. Why then do His creatures that He has formed in His image fret and scheme to control their own lives?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Matt. 6:28-30
