Lily Among Thorns
Happy Valentine's Day
Wonderfully Made
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Wonderfully Made
Psalms 139:14, I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Ephesians 18: 22 And be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Forthrightly Speaking
A personage might ponder how does the pleasant Happy Valentine's Day set apart to celebrate the greatest gift from the Creator God Love's Sweet Surprise, with the Perilous Time of the "Last Days." Forthrightly Speaking, Everything.
2nd Timothy 3:1, This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2nd Peter 3:3, Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts.
2nd John 1:2, For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
Unpretentious Inheritance
Amongst the crowd in the Romantic & Riveting novel "Lily Among Thorns" is a beautiful Holy Spirit filled damsel named Lily as it is written "Wonderfully Made" overflowing without airs the unpretentious inheritance of the divine gift of love's Hopes & Dreams of Hearth & Home.
John 4:8, He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Psalms 37:18, The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
1st Corinthians 13:7, Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Psalms 60:5, That thy beloved that may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and hear me.
Song of Solomon 2:12, The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing of the birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.
Wonderfully Made
Song of Solomon 7:6, How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Galatians 3:26, For ye are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Trusting Soul
Lily on all accounts is the quintessential girl next door endowed with the heartfelt plans of a trusting Soul to bring to light her "One True Love" is now besieged by a dystopian destiny of great suffering due to societies insufficiency of knowledge en route to waxing worse and worse.
Psalms 57:1, Be merciful unto me O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea in the shadow of thy wings I will make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
2nd Timothy 3:13 But evil mean and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived.
Hosea 4:6, My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of God I will also forget thy children.
Wholesome Dreams
Lily shown no mercy or compassion was savagely seized from the warmth of a loving home-life to be locked away in a citadel of horror under the threat of barbarousness is duty-bound to brutality. And along went all her wholesome dreams perhaps never to be realized.
1st Timothy 6:3-7, If any man teach otherwise; and consent not to wholesome words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doing about questions and strifes of words, whereof come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
Psalm 139:12, Yea the darkness not from thee, but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Titus 2:13, Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Wonderfully Made
Romans 10:15, And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things.
Wonderfully Made
Psalms 23:5, Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Psalms 37:4, Delight thyself in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Ruthless Authority
Thus the commonality in the history of Saint Valentinus day and time lived in the 3rd Century during the Heartless & Ruthless authority of the ancient Roman Empire. Saint Valentinus ministered to the Christian Saints declaring the Lord Jesus Christ as King and the Sovereign Lord; by taking a stand for his Faith against the self-aggrandizement of the Emperor Claudius II.
Proverbs 29:2, When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Philippians 4:1, Therefore, my brethren my dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
In the Year of the Lord
The days of yore reveal Saint Valentinus withstand Roman Law by secretly performing weddings for Christian Couples. Subsequently, Valentinus (The ancient Roman enunciation Valentinus) was condemned to death and was martyred first by beaten with clubs and then beheading on February 14th "Anno Domini" interpreted "In the Year of the Lord" 273 at the estimated age of 47-48.
Luke 4:19, To preach the acceptable year of our Lord.
2nd Peter 1:19, We have also a more sure word of prophecy; where unto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.
1st John 4:16, And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Wonderfully Made
Psalms 90:17, And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Wonderfully Made
Proverbs 4:18, But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Eternal Love
Saint Valentinus story continues and it is said he had given parchment hearts to the Bridegroom (Old English expression for "Man for the Bride") in remembrance of their Christian dutiful vows to their Beloved Bride and a symbol of God's eternal Love. A additional story ascribed to Saint Valentinus it is told before he was to be slayed it is said of his faithful walk in Christ Jesus, at the request of his jailer Saint Valentinus restored the sight and the hearing to his jailer's daughter.
Titus 1:2, In the hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.
Jude 1:21, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Heartfelt Desires
Lily's narrative recommences, and surely for appearance sake all looks frightful and without recourse; left to endure the harsh bondage of the vanquished amongst a darkened world which makes known all her hope is "Impossible!" Yet even now Lily's earnest Faithful heartfelt desires in essence presents itself by proclaiming all things are "Possible with God!"
Luke 18:27, And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
Philippians 4:13, I can do all things through Christ which strenghteneth me.
Psalms 27:4, One thing have I desired of the LORD, that I will seek after; that I will dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Ephesians 1:3, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
1st John 1:5, This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Wonderfully Made
Psalms 119:50, This is my comfort in my affection: for thy word hath quickened me.
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