Injustice is Ugly – Ask the flowers

This morning as I went out to water my little garden outside, I came upon nature’s injustice.  I have some canna lilies about to bloom soon but noticed that the plant has an enemy.  It took me a few days to realize how this insidious enemy was working!

From quick appearances, things looked okay, but after looking a bit, something didn’t seem right.  Some of the leaves had trouble opening and some leaves would try to come in under those and either not succeed or got a little warped in the process.

While this may be just a little garden problem, the Lord spoke to me prophetically through it.  Apparently there are some bugs who seal the leaves shut so that they cannot open and then then plant their seeds inside.  The seals are so transparent that you hardly see them!

I enhanced the photos a bit so you could:

    

As you can see in the newer leaves, the spider web looking binding is almost transparent.

Plants are really very strong!  They can overcome a lot of resistance!  But these poor plants really struggled to let their life come through these hard odds.

With even effort on my part, as I opened the seals, this is what I found – it’s gross!  Apparently that black junk is seeds or eggs of some kind.

As I grieved for the plant, I really felt the Lord speak to me that many of His people are bound the same way.  They are trying to bloom and blossom but they are hindered.  I really felt a pain inside about it.

The leaves should unfold naturally like this and then new leaves come forth from the center of that.  They are generations.

You can see how naturally the leaves should open and victims in the broken off leaves there below.  Inside as one leaf opens, a new leaf is forming and eventually a beautiful flower will blossom.

This sealing is hindering the beautiful plant God intended.  Many should be unfolding in their beauty but there are enemies hindering what God has intended.

What do I do about that?  Well obviously if I want to see my canna lillies prosper, I will need to study up on this – seek and find an answer.  My intercession can make a difference!  I must tend my plants!  I must know not to be deceived but to inspect closely.

Someone earlier today told me that “a curse causeless will not alight,” quoting a Bible verse in Proverbs.  But since the fall of man, all creation has been dealing with curses.  It’s just that some agree with them and some agree against them! 

We can feel helpless – and taken advantage of – and sometimes we are!  The devil is a devil!  We can only do the best we can and leave the rest to God.  He ultimately prevails.

UPDATE:  After ministry, this is what my garden produced:

Ministry is important!