Ephesians 5:2 (KJV)
2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.
Above All
I can not listen to this song without tearing up, it deeply moved me the first time I heard it…it still does…
chorus:
Crucified laid behind a stone
You lived to die rejected and alone
Like a rose trampled on the ground
You took the fall and thought of me
Above all!
Just to imagine Christ, my comforter and best friend, crucified, rejected and alone,it touches me deeply. I myself was going through a time of rejection and felt very alone, so I felt the words of the song go straight to my heart – realizing that Christ must have had some of the same feelings.
The sentence, “Like a rose, trampled on the ground”, gave me such a clear word picture of what Jesus went through for us. One of the names of Jesus is “Rose of Sharon.”
But the Lord gave me a new insight. When a rose is crushed or trampled, it offers a very sweet fragrance. Jesus is a sweet smelling fragrance. The Apostle Paul tells us that we are a sweet smelling fragrance to those who believe. I wondered what kind of fragrance we as Christians offer when we have been rejected and feel alone – when we have been crushed and trampled on. Mine is not always sweet.
ABOVE ALL – MICHAEL W. SMITH