Yesterday while at the grocery store I saw the most beautiful bouqet of roses. I was having a very tiring emotional day(in a good way but still). I decided they made me smile so I bought them to have at home to brighten my day a bit.
After I got the roses home I began preparing them to be put in the vase to place on my table. I thought why did i buys the pink ones?! Well I am sure most of you are going well DUH! We know! lol. But my answer may surprise you!
As I began to work with these beautiful delicate flowers, the Lord started to speak to me about my simple bouqet of roses that made me smile.
This bouqet was wrapped nice and pretty in a package and looked good to the eyes, but if you don't take them, do some work on them and give them water when you get them home they will wilt and die QUICKLY! So as in a normal routine I did this. I took the old binding off because they are no longer serving the purpose they were before I bought them they are serving my purpose now. So, I have to arrange them how I see fit and beautiful. Isn't that what God wants to do with us? Bring us out of a place where we are bound to die and be thrown away if not taken care of? Doesn't He see us in a beautiful place to display show and bring joy to Him? To make Him smile?
As I I started preparing the roses they came with a package of "plant food". Basics right? food and water? No water the roses die. The roses can live in just water but they flourish and last longer with the plant food. So I mix the water and food together for the ultimate sustaining nutrition my gorgeous roses will need to flourish. Now I don't just spray the flowers with this mix every now and then do I? No, that would be pointless. I submerge them in it. Fully surrounding and engulfing the open ends in this mixtures of sustaining life feed. Without a mix of our Father's living water and spiritual food where will we be? And is it just enough to get a sprinkle here and there? or every now and then? NO! We must be submerged in His life sustaining solution so we don't end up dead and wilting.
Next I take out the knife. Yes I know, a crude way of doing things but have I ever done things the easy way now have I? NO! I fervently start choping off the the dead ends of the roses and surrounding greenery so that it can soak up the nutririon that is around it and I have provided for it! I can throw the roses in there without pruning them but the dead dry end will prevent them from getting the nutrition it fully needs to extend it's life and reach it's maximum potential in beauty and purpose. I am sure if these roses had nerves or feeling they would be screaming horiblly in pain about the process, the very necessary process, I put them through. You know once we come from where we were, destine to do nothing but sit in a group of others that kinda look like us and die the hand of God takes us in to make us stand out and be a beautiful display for Him, BUT there is a cutting away process. We can't live to our full potential that God has planned for us without that painful process. Some of my "branches" are thicker and more stuborn then others but either way the dead ends have to go so I can flourish for Him.
After the mess I made removing all the dead ends I then started meticulously arranging each flower and stem just where it needed to be to display it's maximum beauty potential. I would place one here, then remove it and place it there until all of the different elements worked together to make a beautiful display. At the end it warmed my heart and made me smile even bigger and broader then when I chose them. Isn't this what God does with us? He take the different parts of us and our lives and moves them around. Maybe one rose stem doesn't look as good by the big green fluffy leaves as it does the smaller delicate ones? Maybe to many roses are clustered together and needs to be separated a bit so each rose or area in our life can shine on its own as well as add to the overall beauty of the arrangement? I am sure the flowers didn't understand why I kept moving, arranging and reerrangng (if they could of course) but I was looking at it as whole and it was beautiful! That's all I want to be is beautiful HIS eyes and make Him smile.
So now we have a gorgeous arrangement that has been through a process to get there, but why pink? AHA! You thought I forgot! Nope! The red rose stands for Love, the white rose stands for Purity. So the mix of both? PINK? you got it a Pure Love! That's what God's love is for us.... Pure Love! He wants us to have that pure love that only He can give and create in our marriages, our lives, our families, and to share to all that are around us. But only from Him choosing us, unbinding us, pruning us, feeding us, and arranging us can we become the beautiful display of pure love, pink roses, that he intends for us to be and that.......makes Him smile. :)
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