SUNFLOWER WORSHIP

God is a Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.

John 4:24 NKJV

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If you’ve ever seen a field of sunflowers, you know that they are spectacularly beautiful and you almost have to smile.  There are so many wonderful lessons that we can learn from nature including sunflowers' response to the sun.

They aren’t just pretty “faces”.  They provide food (seeds that we can eat) and when the seeds are pressed, they provide oil used for cooking, as well as, medicine. According to the Google search engine (FindAnyAnswer), they are considered to be a spiritual flower symbolizing faith, adoration, loyalty, and longevity.  Some also see them as representative of happiness.

They all uniformly turn their “faces” toward the sun (thus their name) and track it’s movement.  In my mind, it was also the sunflowers'  way of honoring our Creator by worshipping Him, as they receive the gifts that the sun's ray impart.  

What lessons can Believers learn from them? Our faces, hearts, and spirits should always face toward the Lord  in worship, adoration, and praise. The SON wants to pour His spirit into us the way that sunflowers are flooded by the warmth and rays of the sun.  He wants us to follow or track Him in our daily walk.  Also, sunflowers never “turn their backs” to the sun, and  no matter how badly we may mess up neither should we turn our backs on the SON.  When we are pressed by challenges, circumstances, and trials in our daily walk, our lives should produce oil just as sunflower seeds and olives do when they are pressed.  Why?  Because the “oil” represents the presence of power of the spirit of God within us.

Blessings.

~CWP~

Matthew 5:16 AMP

Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good deeds and moral excellence, and [recognize and honor and] glorify your Father who is in heaven.