Who Wants A Dirty Rose?
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin Articles
The story is told (author & origin unknown) of a father who had six daughters. He determined to teach the girls a lesson on morals. He knew the necessity of impressing Bible values upon the mind of each daughter as an individual.
As he returned home from work one evening, he stopped by a local flower shop and bought seven of the most beautiful roses in the shop. There would be one of each daughter, with one left over.
At home around the kitchen table, he picked the very prettiest rose out of the bunch, and passed it to the girls, letting each one of them smell it and handle it. Then he put the handled rose, somewhat misused, back into the vase.
After fluffing the flowers with his hands, he passed the roses around and told each daughter to take the rose she wanted. When the vase had made the circle from girl to girl, the father called the girl’s attention to the single rose remaining. It was the first passed around which all the girls had handled — the misused one was left.
The father made his point well.
Good boys, like good girls, are not interested in exploited “roses” when they are looking for a mate for life. If his daughters intended to find a good man to be their husband, they need not expect a godly man to be interested in them if they allowed themselves to be handled and misused morally.
When girls are promiscuous, immoral with the boys they date, in the end, the good and morally upright young man, the young man who will make a good husband, will not be interested in them as a wife.
Let’s think about it!
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