And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?”
Matthew 6:28-30
I stood looking out at the rows of sunflowers their faces upturned to the sky, seeking the warmth and nourishment of the sun. Strolling between the giants I smiled and meditated on the beauty of these unique flowers and their creator.
The sunflower is much more than just a beautiful flower or a source of food; it is a mathematical demonstration of God. A picture of a deliberate and purposeful creator. Have you taken time to study the face of a sunflower? The seeds of the sunflower form in spirals. If you trace the seeds on the face of the flower, you will see that they spiral to the right and the left from the center. The pattern of seeds within a sunflower follows the Fibonacci sequence, or 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144… If you remember back to math class, each number in the sequence is the sum of the previous two numbers. By counting the number of spirals in each direction, you would find that no matter the size of the sunflower, the ratio is always approximately the same. This number is known as the Golden Ratio and rounds to 1.6.
You may be asking, so what, it makes a beautiful pattern? Whereas that is true, the purpose is more than just the aesthetic; that ratio enables the most number of seeds to fit on the face of any given sunflower. God, in His wisdom, created this flower to reproduce in the most efficient way possible. There is precisely enough consistent space between the buds for the seeds to mature. God is in every detail of His creation, and His designs are purposeful. If God takes this much care in the arrangement of the seeds of the sunflower, imagine how much more care He takes over you?
You are important to God.
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