A friend sent this quote recently....about life...the reality of life...thorns...thrones....
"Streams In The Desert"
"The ministry of thorns has often been a greater ministry to man than the ministry of thrones"
It made me consider, thrones, thorns, crowns.....
It seems sometimes that we have to go through or live with a lot of thorns to get to the throne or obtain a crown....life isn't always an easy trail through the tulips....it may be a path through the thorny beautiful roses....
Our family is getting ready for a dedication of a Kodiak plane with Missionary aviation Fellowship, a group who supplies planes, transportation , support for missionaries all over the world...they are dedicating a plane in my husbands memory ....a thorn,,,yes, he is not here to take part in this ceremony...but a throne that he helped make it possible....a crown of life that he is wearing.... So while he is wearing the crown, we are going through the thorns,....and the accolades of the life of his giving.....bittersweet...all around....
Crowns come in all sizes...ideas....
The wise...
The gray haired..
Grandchildren...
The husband of a noble wife...
The rich...
kings....
Those who grieve...
Various People....
A victor....
The overcomer...
A Saviour.......
A crown of thorns for the creator, who exchanged it for a crown of all things, all creation, all glory...his life was not easy here on earth, experiencing mans problems, but he overcame it...just as as ours is not....the thorns with the throne and the crowns....bittersweet...again...
Thank YOU for the thorns, the thrones, the crowns....they seem to go hand in hand...one with the others....that we might obtain the crown of life....which we will lay at your feet...the ultimate Crowned one....
Proverbs 14:24a
The wealth of the wise is their crown, ....
Proverbs 16:31
Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness.
Proverbs 17:6
Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.
Isaiah 51:11
Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 61:3
and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.
Zechariah 9:16
The Lord their God will save his people on that day as a shepherd saves his flock. They will sparkle in his land like jewels in a crown.
Matthew 27:29
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.
Revelation 3:10-12
New International Version (NIV)
10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.
11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. 12 The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.
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