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What Means These Stones

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What Means These Stones

Jos 4:21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What [mean] these stones?

In the last couple weeks I have spent quite a few hours at a cemetery putting in foundations for tombstones for loved ones. When one walks through we almost automatically read the inscriptions.

While I know it is impossible to know where the soul of the decease now abides, there are some clues on some stones. Some stones state nothing more than the date of birth and the demise (1Ki 2:2a I go the way of all the earth) , some tell of the love of those who purchased the stone, others the service to their country: and other things of a religious nature.

For those of us who know Jesus as the only means of salvation, a stone, which portrays folded hands clutching a rosary, saddens us.

Isa 42:8 I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

Yet, in my time there one stone stood out, while I can not recall the name of the deceased, the portion of Scripture graven upon it speaks volumes.

Job 19:25 For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:

THIS IS THE EVERLASTING HOPE DOWN THROUGH THE AGES.

The cold hard fact is if the Redeemer does not live then cemeteries are a mockery to HOPE.

Paul summed it up by declaring, And if Christ be not risen, then [is] our preaching vain, and your faith [is] also vain.

As in all cemeteries love ones will place flowers on the stones to speak of their respect and love for those beneath the sod. Yet, the flowers soon wither and die and their beauty with it. Flowers can not resurrect the dead nor save from judgment.

Yet, if the departed knew The Rose of Sharon they could say along with Job I know that my Redeemer liveth.

Rose of Sharon

This Rose of Sharon has grace to bestow

Proving his love there is blood on the rose

His stem cruelly beaten but beauty still shown

For the price of our wickedness the blood did atone

The Rose of Sharon wore the thorns in public display

To purchase redemption for our going astray

In the garden he wept to his Father above

Your will be done to show forth our love

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There is blood on the Rose for it fades not away