"If you're a rose then I'm the thorn
that's in your side,
And does it hurt badly?
'Cause it burns right here."
When I listened to this song I thought about my relationship with God as was noted earlier, and this line hit me. We are all the body of Christ (Rom. 12.4-6) , and we all have our different roles. Personally I feel like my role changes all the time, and sometimes I feel like the thorn in this--that as a Christian I am an ambassador (II Cor. 5.20) of Christ...with every single word or deed. So when I don't act as Christ would have me, and nonbelieves see me doing so, I am a bad representative of Christ and all He stands for...the thorn on the side of a rose. At that point am I not the one thing keeping a person from experiencing the true nature of a rose (beauty)? It's a remorseful realization (for me) that instead of bringing people to true Beauty (Christ)...once again I've driven them away. Instead of sharing the One thing that means the most too me I hid if from them because they offended me somehow, or hid it from them simply becasue I don't watch everything I do. Maybe it's a shot in the dark, but it certainly helps me keep my head about me at times.
"If you're a rose then I'm the thorn that's in your side, And does it hurt badly? 'Cause it burns right here."
When I listened to this song I thought about my relationship with God as was noted earlier, and this line hit me. We are all the body of Christ (Rom. 12.4-6) , and we all have our different roles. Personally I feel like my role changes all the time, and sometimes I feel like the thorn in this--that as a Christian I am an ambassador (II Cor. 5.20) of Christ...with every single word or deed. So when I don't act as Christ would have me, and nonbelieves see me doing so, I am a bad representative of Christ and all He stands for...the thorn on the side of a rose. At that point am I not the one thing keeping a person from experiencing the true nature of a rose (beauty)? It's a remorseful realization (for me) that instead of bringing people to true Beauty (Christ)...once again I've driven them away. Instead of sharing the One thing that means the most too me I hid if from them because they offended me somehow, or hid it from them simply becasue I don't watch everything I do. Maybe it's a shot in the dark, but it certainly helps me keep my head about me at times.