Which verse in the Bible is your favourite?” I asked this of an elderly lady in our church many years ago. “I don’t have one,” she replied. “What do you mean?” I asked. She explained that bible verses were to her like flowers, in that they blossom at various times.” She saw verses as blossoming in season. So, instead of loving only John 3:16 for example, she loved whichever verse the Lord ‘opened’ to her at any given time — some unexpectedly.
Her wise words come back to me whenever a new verse means so much that the one that I have loved fades. “All scripture is inspired of God (literally: “is God-breathed”). The last frangipani flower of the season has fallen, but Lorraine has planted such a variety of trees, plants and flowers in the garden there are other fragrances for us to enjoy.
I am no gardener, but I love the ‘fragrance’ that wafts when the Spirit of God ‘opens’ a verse of scripture which I thought I knew well and it then becomes my new favourite until in time another ‘opens’. God’s Word is an inspired, heaven-scented garden of time-blossoming texts!