The Desert and the Rose
Life is filled with deserts. But take heart - there is much hope in this promise. In fact tremendous spiritual growth can happen in the midst of our dry desert. I have found this to be especially true. With God we can look forward to a period of richness and EXTREME joy if we rest in the knowledge that "this too shall pass". God is with us.
Isaiah 51:3
Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And her wilderness He will make like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.
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Amongst flowers the rose is deemed the sweetest, but Jesus is infinitely more beautiful in the garden of the soul than the rose can be in the gardens of earth. Let Jesus into your dry desert heart. Let this blessed rose take root and bloom there forever.
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Thank You Lord that You are with us - especially in the desert. Help each of us look forward to the blooming of the rose in the midst of our deserts. In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Life is filled with deserts. But take heart - there is much hope in this promise. In fact tremendous spiritual growth can happen in the midst of our dry desert. I have found this to be especially true. With God we can look forward to a period of richness and EXTREME joy if we rest in the knowledge that "this too shall pass". God is with us.
Isaiah 51:3
Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And her wilderness He will make like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.
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Amongst flowers the rose is deemed the sweetest, but Jesus is infinitely more beautiful in the garden of the soul than the rose can be in the gardens of earth. Let Jesus into your dry desert heart. Let this blessed rose take root and bloom there forever.
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The Desert Rose
Karen Holland
Desert rose, whose beauty shines
Grows in a most unlikely place.
In the hottest heat this rose is born.
Like gold in the furnace tried, refined.
The petals unfurl, ever so slowly
Against the blast of heat and wind.
For this beauty is born in storms
Against the greatest of odds
Where all is dry, barren, wasted - dying
From lack of water
The desert rose not only blooms
but thrives.
The sweet beauty, the miracle of the desert rose
doesn't dare to compare
to the heart where
Jesus has taken root
and is blooming.
Karen Holland
Desert rose, whose beauty shines
Grows in a most unlikely place.
In the hottest heat this rose is born.
Like gold in the furnace tried, refined.
The petals unfurl, ever so slowly
Against the blast of heat and wind.
For this beauty is born in storms
Against the greatest of odds
Where all is dry, barren, wasted - dying
From lack of water
The desert rose not only blooms
but thrives.
The sweet beauty, the miracle of the desert rose
doesn't dare to compare
to the heart where
Jesus has taken root
and is blooming.
Thank You Lord that You are with us - especially in the desert. Help each of us look forward to the blooming of the rose in the midst of our deserts. In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.
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