You do not have to be a 26-year-old single mother carrying on an affair with a married man to be the broken rose. Every person is that wilted, broken flower. Maybe it is sexual deviance or dalliance. Maybe it is lying. Maybe it is arrogance, apathy, legalism, lawlessness, anger, passivity, or something else. But each of us has lost our petals and are nothing more than a trash heap worthy busted stem.
But may the phrase "Jesus wants the rose!" be a motto of hope and a cause of repentance and a purpose for living for you as it has become for me.
I was just going to post this same thing... I listened to it the other day. And wanted to blog a similar post. Guest post by Barna on my blog??
ReplyDeleteYou could always link to mine. Or just copy it. Consider this my permission.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 16 I watched a preacher give the exact same speech about the rose except he used an orange. He passed it around with a pencil and had each person poke the orange with the pencil. He then asked 'who wants a bite out of this orange?' He then used the 'salt and light' verse and said that if any of us had 'lost our saltiness' we couldn't get it back. I watched girls sob that night because they felt God wanted nothing else to do with them.
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing message Chandler gives. He is pretty much the man.