Just the other day I went to the store and bought my wife a pink rose for her birthday, something that simply said, "I love you!" Later I put the it in a vase with water and I noticed that the rose stem did not have any thorns on it, being in landscaping for the past eight years on and off I have never seen a rose bush grow without thorns on them. How nice it was to behold this beauty and not get pricked in the finger by a thorn, to be able to handle it with no threat of pain. This got me thinking about how our society has viewed relationships. It seems that people in our society wants to go into their relationships with no threat of pain from the thorns that comes with it. If they see any sign of something that is going to cause them pain, they want to back out and run the other way.
Would it not be nice to pick out love as though we were going to pick out a rose from a floral shop that had no threat of being hurt?!?! But love is going to hurt some times. Why? Cause we are human and we are fallen. Just as it says in Romans 3:23 "We all have sinned, and we all have fallen short of the glory of God!" God loves us with an unconditional love that never lashes out at us or makes us feel any less than what we are. He loves us and fills us with His prefect love. The good thing is that we will one day love like this too. When Christ returns to get His bride the church that He is making spotless with His blood. It is then we will take off this imperfection and put on perfection.
So as we pass by the roses in the floral shop knowing that they will not prick us when we pick them, just remember that the ones on the bushes are and there are band-aids to cover the wound up, just as forgiveness is the band-aid for the love that hurts sometimes. I was told to go and read the love chapter in the bible 1 Corinthians 13 about what does love look like and there it is, vs 5, "it keeps no records of wrongs!"
Something to think about...
Would it not be nice to pick out love as though we were going to pick out a rose from a floral shop that had no threat of being hurt?!?! But love is going to hurt some times. Why? Cause we are human and we are fallen. Just as it says in Romans 3:23 "We all have sinned, and we all have fallen short of the glory of God!" God loves us with an unconditional love that never lashes out at us or makes us feel any less than what we are. He loves us and fills us with His prefect love. The good thing is that we will one day love like this too. When Christ returns to get His bride the church that He is making spotless with His blood. It is then we will take off this imperfection and put on perfection.
So as we pass by the roses in the floral shop knowing that they will not prick us when we pick them, just remember that the ones on the bushes are and there are band-aids to cover the wound up, just as forgiveness is the band-aid for the love that hurts sometimes. I was told to go and read the love chapter in the bible 1 Corinthians 13 about what does love look like and there it is, vs 5, "it keeps no records of wrongs!"
Something to think about...
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