Bible Plants

From: Messages of God's Love: 1967

On these bright sunny days, boys and girls are often out in the parks and forest preserves, where God’s handiwork is seen in the flowers and trees of the field. Perhaps we could have a little talk together today on four plants. we read about in the Bible.

THE BLEEDING MYRRH— Song of Sol. 5:5⁵I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. (Song of Solomon 5:5). This speaks to us of the dying Saviour. The word means “bleeding-flowing.” It was sweet-smelling. It flowed from the tree where it was bruised or cut. It is said to have been used in the Near East by a rejected lover, who anointed the handles of the door that was closed against him. All this tells of Jesus, the lover of our souls, who died. He was pierced for us. His blood flowed for sin. How can any reject His love, or close their heart’s door against Him? Have you opened yours? Can you say, “As myrrh new bleeding from the tree,

Is a dying Christ to me?”

THE LOWLY HYSSOP— 1 Kings 4:33³³And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. (1 Kings 4:33). It was the smallest of plants of which Solomon sang (I Kings 4:33). It was used to dip in the basin of blood and sprinkle the lintel and door posts, that dark night when the destroying angel passed over the land of Egypt and slew the first-born. Only those that were under the shelter of the blood were spared (Ex. 12:22²²And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. (Exodus 12:22)). The hyssop was weak in itself but grew out of the strong wall. So does faith take hold of the precious blood of Christ for salvation, and clings to Him, the mighty One, for security and strength.

THE LOVELY LILY —Song of Sol, 2:2. Type of a saint of God, white and pure—lowly and lovely. God sees all who are in Christ, spotless and fair. They are made white in the blood of the Lamb (Rev. 7:14¹⁴And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:14)), They keep themselves unspotted from the world (Jas. 1:27²⁷Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)). The babe Moses was “fair” to God (Acts 7:20²⁰In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: (Acts 7:20)). So are all the saved. They become Christ-like, meek and lowly. And the day is coming when they will be glorified and made like unto Christ perfectly (I John 3:2²The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. (John 3:2)). How wonderful to be saved when young!

THE PRICKLY THORN—Hebrews 6:8⁸But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. (Hebrews 6:8). God’s picture of a sinner. They “shall be all of them as thorns thrust away.” 2 Samuel 23:6⁶But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: (2 Samuel 23:6); “whose end is to be burned.” Heb. 6:8⁸But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. (Hebrews 6:8). Fit only for the fire. No fruit to God, no beauty; they die as they live, in sin, and pass into eternity, unwashed, unforgiven. How sad the end! How awful the doom and destiny! Would you escape it? Then flee to Jesus now. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved,’ Acts 16:31³¹And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31).

ML 09/17/1967

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