Sunlit Meadow, Matthew 6:28 Consider the Lilies Wall Art

What is painted

The foreground is crowded with white lilies, their petals catching the light, standing tall among long green grass. Beyond them the meadow tips down toward a broad valley where a river bends through fields and trees, fading into a hazy distance. On the path that crosses the slope walks a lone figure, so small that you notice them only on a second look.

The colors are fresh greens and creamy whites with touches of pale blue in the far hills, the palette of an early summer morning. With the scene comes the verse: “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow”, and the reference Matthew 6:28. The walker gives the picture its scale: the flowers are near and large, the worries of the road are far away.

Why Jesus pointed to the lilies

The line comes from the Sermon on the Mount, in a passage about worry. Jesus has just told his listeners to look at the birds of the air, which neither sow nor reap, and yet are fed. Then he turns to clothing: “And why take ye thought for raiment?” The answer is in the field. The lilies “toil not, neither do they spin”, and still, he says, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

The point is not that work is wrong but that anxiety is misplaced. If God dresses the grass of the field, which is here today and burned tomorrow, he will care for people too. The passage ends with the well-known words, “seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Luke records the same teaching in Luke 12.

No one is quite sure which flower Jesus had in mind; Galilee's hillsides are full of wild blooms in spring. The painting uses white lilies, the flower most readers picture when they hear the verse.

A living room print for a worried heart

Bright and open, this landscape brightens a living room, a sunny kitchen or a bedroom that needs a window onto something green. It also suits a new home, a garden room or a cottage-style wall with other botanical pieces.

Because it answers worry with a picture of care, people send it to a friend going through uncertainty, and it can comfort a family in mourning without feeling heavy. This Christian wall art is printed to order in the United States on archival matte paper with a weighty feel, ships free within the US, and comes in sizes from 5x7 to 24x36 as well as metric and A formats. In a small size this Christian poster fits on a desk shelf, a gentle reminder to breathe before the day's list of tasks.