Flowers, Pictures, and Cakes — Oh My!

The Biblical Appreciation of Creation: Flowers

From the opening chapters of Scripture we see that God created a world full of variety and color, and He invited his people to notice it. The apostle Paul reminds us that “the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork” (Psalm one hundred twenty:2). In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus points to the everyday splendor of God’s design: “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these” (Matthew 6:28-30). These verses show that flowers are not merely decorative; they are a tangible reminder of God’s providential care and a call to trust in His provision.

Images and Pictures: From Idols to Testimonies

The Old Testament contains a clear prohibition against creating graven images for worship: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth” (Exodus 20:4). This command targets objects of idolatry, not the broader use of pictures to convey truth. The New Testament balances this warning with a profound theological truth: “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation” (Colossians 1:15). Because humans are made in the

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