We walked and were able to observe,
When we traveled through the dessert plants, let’s say there was a lot less touching! The thorns kept my hands and fingers at a distance.
As we were leaving, I whispered to my friend, I wonder if thorns were around at the time of creation.
And that quickly the Holy Spirit reminded me of God’s Word that reads, “To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.”
Amazing! A product of the fall, the sin of man. God completed his creation and then rested. The sin of man brought a change to landscape of God’s creation and to us!
Death came along with every prickly plant.
It brings a different perspective to the thorn of crowns placed on the head of Jesus.
“They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.” (Matthew 27:28-31)
This is the Creator of the World who made everything perfect. He is crowned with the “sin” of man causing his very blood to be shed!
Can you feel that? Our worst condition placed upon him. It hits the very core of my soul!
Thorns and thistles the very image and product of our disobedience, always likened to separation from God, associated with sin in the Scriptures. This crown is placed on Jesus, and he took it!
They hurled insults at him. (2 Peter 2:23) He was despised and rejected by mankind. (Isaiah 53)
They taunted him. Mocked him. But as the blood drips from his forehead, this would be the way of redemption. He would make all things new again.
He did it because of us; our rebellion. Yet because of his unlimited love for us he will go to Calvary and give up his life.
A corrupted, sick world waiting for renewal.
“For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.” (Romans 8:20-21)
Without sin, there would be no need for redemption.
Without sin, thorns and thistles would not have been “produced.”
Redemption has come! He gladly took the thorns, the mocking, the beating because his love for us is grand, without limits!
Today, he offers this gift to you! Salvation is free!
The cost has already been paid by Jesus.
Redemption has come! He gladly took the thorns, the mocking, the beating because his love for us is grand, without limits!
Today, he offers this gift to you! Salvation is free!
The cost has already been paid by Jesus.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
Come, smell the flowers again. He is bringing restoration soon! It’s already been paid for.
God bless you!~Liz
