BEAUTIFUL AND FRAGRANT LIFE
“I am the rose of Sharon” (song of Solomon 2:1)
The rose is the queen of flowers. Some flowers are fragrant but not beautiful, and some flowers are beautiful but not fragrant. The rose is both beautiful and fragrant. As the bride of Christ, our life must be one of unique beauty, fragrance and sweetness. “Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee…
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. My dove, my undefiled is but ONE”, says the bridegroom of the bride (s.s 4:7 & s.s 6:8,9)Everywhere around the rose there are thorns. When the wind blows the soft petals of the rose are pricked by the thorns. What does the rose give in return? It gives sweet fragrance. We live in the midst of a crooked and perverse people, people who prick and hurt, people who cannot love; we need to perfume their lives with the aroma of forgiving love and kindness.
The oak tree lives for a thousand years but it has no beauty or fragrance. The rose lives only a short period but it is beautiful and it gives good fragrance. It matters how many days we live. All our days must be filled with beauty and fragrance. The Christian life is truly a beauty and fragrant life, for it is the life revealing Christ, of revealing Christlikeness to the world. “Thanks be unto God which maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us un every place” (II cor 2: 14) .so child of God, let Christ fill your life. Without him you have no holiness, no beauty.
Let him shine out of you.The rose never has to go to the butterfly and bee. They come to it even if it is in corner. If we are like the rose, souls will flock to us to taste of God’s love, to taste of Christlikeness. Dear child of God, today we may be a thorn in the garden of God, the church. However, our gracious Lord can transform you into a beautiful rose, filled with fragrance and honey – if only you will repent and return to him. So, let us lead a fragrant life. Our best example is our Lord who proved a fragrant life before us.
We pray today to live a fragrant life and win souls with pure grace of God our Lord.AMEN
Sol.Jesse