I absolutely love a good story, and
one day back when I was in my early teens an elderly lady came by my church and told a
story about a little girl who was disobedient, so she did not listen to her
mother when she said ‘don't climb that fruit tree’. But one day her mother went to the market, and she went up in the tree, before long she fell out of the tree into a pile of thorns. That little girl was the grown woman telling her own story.
In my life’s observation,
some of the most beautiful and vital things are covered with thorns: aloe vera,
roses, grapefruit trees, prickly pear and the crown of thorns just to name a
few. In plant morphology, according to Wikipedia, thorns are all hard
structures with sharp, stiff, ends, generally with the same function of
physically deterring animals from eating the plant material. There are thorns in our lives that hide the
beauty within and deter us from serving God the way we should. These thorns may
be the negative words we speak about each other, selfishness, covetousness,
lying, sexual immorality, unfaithfulness to God and lack of love. Before they
crucified Christ, they placed a crown of thorns on His head. Blinded they were
of His divinity, as they stood there laughing and mocking. But in spite of that, He
wore the thorns because He knew that He had a majestic plan of salvation
beneath it all. So reader, ‘who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or
sword?’ (Rom. 8:35). These thorns will not stand; they shall not prevail if you ‘put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand
against the schemes of the devil’. (Ephesians 6:11) It all starts with your mind, what do you
think about daily? What do you listen to daily? Who are the people you
surround yourself with daily? Let us pray that as we go through this life, that
our hearts may rest on Jesus, ‘the thorn remover.’
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