A beautiful garden filled with exquisite roses, arrayed in a splendor of colors
Their sweet aroma penetrating your deepest senses, encasing you into an abundace of life.
Imagine with me for a moment...the glistening dew drops as the sunlight dances upon
each rose petal causing them to sparkle like diamonds.
Imagine with me for a moment...a rose lying in the soil dirty, tattered and torn
The richness of its color has now faded
The fragrance is faint and the life that was is now a shadow of what was to become.
Aaah...Imagine with me for a moment...YOU.
You and I are one of God's flowers planted here in earth to thrive and to flourish in this world
as we leave the fragrance of Christ in and on the lives that we touch.
Often times, we're like that rose that has wiltered under the pressures of life, beaten down by the torrents of rain which are called evperiences
Trials, pains, loss...causes us to lose our luster to shine and our fragrance becomes stale
We're crushed beneath our burdens until death over shadows us...
Just like a fallen rose, we lie in the dirt of our valleys until a hand reaches down to retrive us
to revive and to restore...picked up by a gardener.
A loving gardener knows each one of his flowers by name
He protects, cares for and nourishes them...and yes, when one is near death, the gardener does everything possible to breathe life back into it again.
Isn't it awesome that God responds the same way!
He is the gardener of our spirits and He loves and knows us by name
He sees you in your garden for it was HIM who planted you there...So whether you're standing tall and shining bright,it's because He's breathing life into you
Or whether you've fallen in the dirt...WILTERED and WORN, BEATEN and BATTERED, TATTERED and TORN...DEATH is only a shadow for THE GARDENER is reach down in the dust, dirt and miry clay of your dispair to rescue you, to BREATHE life into you again.
A whispering touch of BREATH from the Master is all that's needed TO RESTORE, TO REPLENISH, TO REVIVE, TO RENEW you back into your orginal design.
He loves you...You're EXQUISITE to Him
He chose you...He planted you and He placed you in your garden...You're asking, "What's my garden?"
Your garden is: YOUR FAMILY, YOUR HOME, YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR COMMUNITY, YOUR CITY, YOUR STATE, YOUR CHURCH,YYOUR JOB, YOUR SPHERE OF INLUENCE, ANYPLACE WHERE YOU ARE IS YOUR GARDEN TO TEND, TO ENHANCE, TO UNPLUCK, TO UPROOT, TO WEED OUT....
So that other's can see HIS beauty, smell HIS fragrance as they witness HIS handiwork in our lives so much so that they too desire to become A FLOWER IN THE MASTER'S GARDEN that is why, YOU MUST LIVE
THE HOPE MAY BE HOLLOW...
THE FRAGRANCE MAY BE FEEBLE...
THE DIRT MAY BE DEEP....
AND THE PAIN MAY BE PROFOUND....
BUT GOD IS POWERFUL....
HOLD ON....THE LILLY OF THE VALLEY, THE ROSE OF SHARON,THE ONE WHO WAS LIKE A ROSE, TRAMPLED ON THE GROUND, TOOK THE FALL AND THOUGHT OF YOU...HAS ENTERED INTO YOUR GARDEN, IS SCOOPING YOU UP OUT OF YOUR DIRT, GENTLY BRUSHING AND BLOWING THAT DUST OF DEBRIS FROM YOU..AHHH AS THE FATHER BREATHES AND THE SON SHINES ON YOU AND RE-RELEASES YOU BACK INTO YOUR GARDEN SAYING" READY,SET...BLOOM!
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