MY CROWN OF THORNS...

THIS IS A RE-POST that I like to do at least once a year...
and  CHRISTMAS TIME seems to be the RIGHT time of year

Some very good friends in our church group gave this CROWN OF THORNS plant to me several years ago.
It was so small that it was planted in a butter tub.

It was soooo tiny. I've kept it in a sunny, Southern window, watered when dry, fertilized lightly so as not to burn it and FINALLY, it has a few, little tiny red flowers on it.

 This all just serves as a reminder about our relationship with Jesus Christ...
 The more we care for it, the more it grows into something so beautiful.

Just look at those wicked thorns !! They always make me think of the CROWN OF THORNS our sweet Jesus wore and it reminds me of all HE went thru for you and for me.
Just the thought of this brings tears to my eyes. I always...ALWAYS, feel I never give enough back to HIM.

Such tiny little flowers and such HUGH thorns...
.I wonder if I keep putting it in a larger pot if it will continue to grow larger and larger; like the way HE puts us in different places in our lives that make us grow stronger in HIS spirit.

Every thing I've read about this pretty plant says the flowers will be tiny in size and few in number; like the Christians of God's great world.

We are growing in number by leaps and bounds. It just thrills me to death each time I see a new bloom on this plant...
the same feeling you get when you see a new Christian being born in the love of God.

I have the urge to give this plant twice the fertilizer it should have so there will be many more of the beautiful, red flowers. I'm afraid I'll kill it, tho, so I try to refrain from using too much.

Just like when I want to PUSH someone towards God but I know if I take it slow and easy, it will happen, through the Glory of God.
I do love this plant, thorns and all.......I do love our Savior, through the good times and through the bad.
                                                                                 
Just to know, beyond A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, that HE is ALWAYS beside us...through those good and bad times, makes me want to try harder and harder to GIVE BACK more of myself to HIM.
...to walk closer with Jesus Christ is my goal  EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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Every spring, I move this pot outside and it just grows and grows...

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This summer, my CROWN OF THORNS has been so beautiful..
As long as I nurture it...water...feed...trim...give it the right amount of light,
it continues to give me much pleasure...and it will, from now on, if I take care of it.
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We have to nurture our relationship with Jesus..water and feed it...give it the right amount of light, in other
words,
 WALK CLOSE WITH HIM...
and HE will continue to bless us more than we ever have imagined..
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Please make it YOUR goal, too, to have a closer  relationship
with our Savior, Jesus Christ..
Of all the things in this life and beyond,
HE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT.
HE IS OUR ALL.
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THANKS TO ALL THE HOSTS..
LOVE, bj