Here we see Jesus' great love for the earth, for the whole created order and for all creatures within it. Stephen Cottrell
Consider the lilies, Stanley Spencer
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Matthew 6:23
Magnetism
Jesus appeals for action: to mark, regard, contemplate lilies. Spancer's painting takes this invitation seriously and visualises for us Jesus doing exactly that.
The huge rounded figure of Jesus, on all fours, is magnetically drawn towards the mass of the earth. His sheer weight presses into and is held above the daisies which in turn reach out and up towards him (deep calls to deep?). Devoid of distraction, given wholly to this startingly important and sizeable gesture, he gives himself to his God; the maker of earth and heaven. The God who sustains and nurtures him, as he does the grass and these 'ordinary' daisies.
Do we, or might we, emulate Jesus' orientation?