A few years back I was on my way home from vacation with my parents and we stopped to have lunch at a vineyard. What surprised me was that at the end of every row of grapes there was a rose bush. Because the roses were planted at the end of each row the grape vineyard looked like a rose garden. I couldn’t understand why they would plant roses in a grape vineyard. They were beautiful roses but the vineyard itself was beautiful enough.
Curiosity got to me as I was eating my lunch so I proposed the question to our waitress. To my surprise she said the roses are like the canary in the coal mines. I asked what that meant and she said before there were air monitors in the mines the workers would have a bird in the mines. The little canary’s lungs were so small and their respiration rate so quick that is poisonous gases were in the mines the little bird would quit singing and many times fall asleep or die. The miners knew if this happened they needed to get out quickly or die themselves. She went on to explain insects and disease would attack the roses before the grapes. If the roses started to look bad the vinedresser immediately treated the grapes as well as the roses and thus the grapes were spared.
Knowing one of the many names of Jesus was Rose of Sharon I thought about what He did for you and me. Jesus took the diseases from us the grapes connected to the vine so that we would be spared. It always amazes me how Jesus speaks to us through nature and how nature speaks of God. The rocks need not cry out when everywhere we go we see the love that Jesus has for us.
Stay connected and stay healthy. Remind yourself you do not have to be sick in your body the rose of Sharon has taken your sickness and your disease and nailed them to the cross.
Song of Solomon 2:1 KJV “I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.”
John 15:5 NIV “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
Curiosity got to me as I was eating my lunch so I proposed the question to our waitress. To my surprise she said the roses are like the canary in the coal mines. I asked what that meant and she said before there were air monitors in the mines the workers would have a bird in the mines. The little canary’s lungs were so small and their respiration rate so quick that is poisonous gases were in the mines the little bird would quit singing and many times fall asleep or die. The miners knew if this happened they needed to get out quickly or die themselves. She went on to explain insects and disease would attack the roses before the grapes. If the roses started to look bad the vinedresser immediately treated the grapes as well as the roses and thus the grapes were spared.
Knowing one of the many names of Jesus was Rose of Sharon I thought about what He did for you and me. Jesus took the diseases from us the grapes connected to the vine so that we would be spared. It always amazes me how Jesus speaks to us through nature and how nature speaks of God. The rocks need not cry out when everywhere we go we see the love that Jesus has for us.
Stay connected and stay healthy. Remind yourself you do not have to be sick in your body the rose of Sharon has taken your sickness and your disease and nailed them to the cross.
Song of Solomon 2:1 KJV “I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.”
John 15:5 NIV “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
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