The Beauty of The Rose Garden
For the child of God in Christ, we are not promised a "rose garden" well... yes we are in a way. Roses are beautiful to the smell and sight, yet to the touch they can pierce the body, by the thorns that follow up the stem to the beautiful blossom. So in the beauty of the "rose garden" there is pain or always the possibility of pain. Beside the Man of Sorrows, Isaiah, and Jeremiah, King David was well experienced in the trials, pain, distress, loneliness, disappointment, death of sons, brother (Jonathan), betrayal of a King he was faithful to. David a faithful servant of God, a man after God's heart, faced spiritual battles, and David was successful, and David made mistakes, but David's position did NOT make him immune to the battles of this life. Christian, lonely parent, divorced spouse, widower and widow, you understand all too clearly David's woes, and Jesus understands them too. He carried them all to the cross, the full weight causing Him to cry out, " My God...My God...Why hast Thou forsaken me?" I speak FROM EXPERIENCE of having a soon to be decade of hard, difficult battles, but they were always the most painful and difficult when I tried to stand on my own, they became light and lighter as I fell own my knees and cried out. Here is a passage for when the flesh (EMOTIONS and ATTITUDES) start screaming in your head:
"144 Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword." (Psalms 144:1-10 KJV) Love in Christ, Jason
"144 Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword." (Psalms 144:1-10 KJV) Love in Christ, Jason
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