Hey, what's up guys, Alex here. In this video, I'll share how to live purposely as a Christian through one simple thing that we can practice every day.

If you want to wake up each day knowing what you're called to do and walk in that with confidence from God, listen up.

To illustrate this point, allow me to use an example from nature. I haven't done one of these in a while, and so I was listening to this song and it made me think of this.

Did you know that flowers reproduce through a process called pollination? The sun shines down on the flower, and then the flower opens up its petals, which is the first step to starting pollination.

Now, bees can come by after that and then get covered in pollen and fly over to a female part of a different flower, thus initiating reproduction.

And I want you to focus on this one fact.

The light of the sun causes the flowers to open up due to light sensitivity.

You see, flowers and Christians have this in common.

Stay with me.

Jesus, the Son of God once said, in John 8, 12, I am the light of the world.

And he has shined his light down on us, and what happens?

We open up to him through prayer, obedience, surrender to the Father's will, and by doing so,

we end up reproducing other Christians.

But what happens, and this is the point I want to get to, what happens when we are no longer sensitive to his light?

We become wilting flowers, needing more sunlight. Now, not all flowers have light sensitivity, so this is where the analogy breaks down. But allow me to press this even further.

Being closed off, petals closed means no pollination, no beautiful color petals reflecting the light of the sun,

no reproduction of other flowers. Jesus himself compares us to flowers in verses like Matthew 6, 28 through 30.

In those verses, he's saying, we shouldn't worry because we're more valuable to God than flowers.

Yet, look at how beautifully taken care of the flowers are by God.

I mean, the flowers, they open up their petals in glorifying obedience to God.

Shouldn't we open up our, quote unquote, petals to God?

After all, isn't our sole purpose to reflect his light?

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