Heavenly Fragrance

 

 

 

 

     While visiting a friend some years ago, we were enjoying her lovely flowers and she reached her hand into a clump of pinks and brought out a handful of stems and flowers.  The aroma was so wonderful.  Anyone that grows carnations knows all about this atmosphere. 

 

 

             

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     The ones you grow at home are a sweeter smell than the ones you buy, for the most part. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These pinks you see in the picture are what came from that little handful our friend plucked from her garden.  Many years we have delighted in this beauty.

    

 

 


 "We want to see you, and we want to see you trusting fully in the precious Saviour. He loves you; He gave His life for you because He valued your soul. I had a dream not long since. I was going through a garden, and you were by my side. You kept saying, "Look at this unsightly shrub, this deformed tree, that poor stunted rosebush. This makes me feel bad, for they seem to represent my life and the relation I stand in before God."  I thought a stately form walked just before us, and he said, "Gather the roses and the lilies and the pinks, and leave the thistles and unsightly shrubs, and bruise not the soul that Christ has in His choice keeping." 

     I awoke; I slept again and the same dream was repeated. And I awoke and slept and the third time it was repeated. Now I want you to consider this and put away your distrust, your worrying, your fears. Look away from yourself to Jesus; look away from your husband to Jesus. God has spoken to you words of encouragement; grasp them, act upon them, walk by faith, and not by sight. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."  Hebrews 11:1. 

     Jesus holds His hand beneath you. Jesus will not suffer the enemy to overcome you. Jesus will give you the victory. He has the virtue; He has the righteousness. You may look to yourself to find it and may well despair in doing this because it is not there. Jesus has it. It is yours by faith because you love God and keep His commandments.  

     Do not listen to Satan's lies, but recount God's promises. Gather the roses and the lilies and the pinks. Talk of the promises of God. Talk faith. Trust in God, for He is your only hope. He is my only hope. I have tremendous battles with Satan's temptations to discouragements, but I will not yield an inch. I will not give Satan an advantage over my body or my mind."





DG 146