A Rose is a precious flower filled with such fragrance and pleasantness. It depicts love, affection and care. It is a unique flower that signifies a lot of things.
A Rose is so precious that it is surrounded by thorns which acts as a protection to it..
Funny how such flower grows amidst thorns, it is a flower you can't just pluck like that, you have to go through the thorn to get the Rose...
A Rose has a colour that signifies Beauty, Liveliness and Passion....
What a wonderful sight to behold but suddenly this Epitome of Love and Beauty begins to bleed, drops of what seems like thick red blood falls from this flower, the once attractive, desirable, adorable flower is beginning to fade away, it is losing it's beauty and fragrance, it is becoming an undesirable flower because it is losing it's colour, attractiveness, elegance and beauty...
Look!!!
THE ROSE IS BLEEDING, IT'S PETALS ARE FALLING, THE ROSE IS DYING AND FINALLY THE ROSE WHO ONCE STOOD ELEGANTLY IN THE FIELD HAS DIED OFF😢😢...
Everyone has forgotten about the Beautiful Rose who once graced the field with her fragrance and beauty, now that the Rose is fallen, it is been trampled on the floor by all and sundry, "of what use is a fallen, faded and dead rose" they say?
Then comes a time, as suddenly as the Rose began to bleed and die, suddenly the ROSE BEGINS TO BLOOM AGAIN, IT'S SWEET FRAGRANCE FILLED THE AIR, THE ROSE HAS BLOSSOMED AGAIN, giving another chance to those who did not care for it by giving it attention, watering it and tending to it to do so now...
Yes, it is still surrounded by thorns but it is waiting for those who will defy the thorns and recognize it's inestimable value and dare to come for it...
The question now is....
Will you neglect this Rose again or you will dare to go for it and accept it as your own?
Will you let this Rose bleed again and die all over again because you never heed its silent plea for your attention?
Will you allow it to continue bleeding till it finally fades away or you will rush to it and take responsibility for it, that you are the cause of its bleeding, then tend for it and nurse it back to life by giving it attention, care and tending to its need?
Don't forget that when you take care of it, it beautifies the garden of your life, it fills your life with so much fragrance and beauty, it makes the garden of your heart so desirable by all and sundry and you become a wonderful sight to behold.
It fills you with so much glory, attractiveness, beauty, love, freshness and Joy because of its beautiful nature and more than ever before it reproduces more of its kind in your life because you tended to its wound when it was bleeding, because you heeded to its call, its silent cry and accepted it as your own...
It then uses all it possesses (BOTH ITS FLOWERS AND THORNS) to make your life meaningful. With its beautiful flowers, it makes your life such a glorious sight to behold and with its ever protective thorn, it protects and guards you jealousy from the devourers of your life.
This Rose is THE ROSE OF SHARON...
JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD.
He came to this earth and while on earth he was desired by many for His Love, Care, Tenderness, the Beauty and Fragrance He spreads about by the many GOOD WORKS which He performed while on earth; Anywhere He was, multitude sought Him so that their life will be graced by His Presence, they sought Him for Miracles, Healings and All the virtues He had to offer until suddenly this PRECIOUS ROSE OF SHARON BEGAN TO BLEED.....
HE bled at Gethsemane,
"And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground...."
The ones around him couldn't see him bleed in tears, they couldn't see His agony...
Then the time came when THE ROSE OF SHARON became despised by the ones who admired Him before, He was rejected, bruised, mocked and trampled on the ground by the ones who once shouted HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST!!! a few days ago, now they are the same people that cry CRUCIFY HIM!!
What a world!!!
A crown of thorn was put on His head, He was smitten, He was mocked and humiliated
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted".
Finally, He gave up the ghost (He died)...
The BLEEDING ROSE FINALLY BLED TO DEATH😢😢.
But that was not all, on the 3rd day, THE ROSE OF SHARON ROSE UP AGAIN.... HALLELUJAH, THE ROSE BLOSSOMED AGAIN...
His Glory, Beauty, Fragrance was restored again...
Now, there HE is at the garden of your heart, calling silently to you to give Him your attention, to receive Him and accept Him as your own... Will you open up your heart and attend to Him? Will you give Him a space in your garden for Him to blossom again, multiply and fill your heart with His Sweet fragrance? Will you receive Him as your own and gain access to ALL He has to offer you (both Beauty, Glory and Protection)?
OR
Will you shut him out and leave Him unattended to? Will you neglect His Call and plea and let THE ROSE OF SHARON BLEED AGAIN because of you?
OR
Perhaps you have accepted Him before but you've allowed the cares of this world to shut Him out and leave Him untended to?
Is He fading away again or bleeding again because of your sins?...
A song says "Does He still feel the nails every time I fail? Does He hear the Crowd cry CRUCIFY again? Am I causing Him Pains? then I know I've got to CHANGE, cos I just can't bear the thought of hurting Him"
WILL YOU RECEIVE THE ROSE OF SHARON INTO THE GARDEN OF YOUR HEART OR YOU WANT HIM TO CONTINUE BLEEDING BECAUSE OF YOU???
THE BLEEDING ROSE!!!
SHALOM
©Winnie
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