Tuesday, May 21, 2013 The Song
of Songs 2:10-13 NJB
Come Then, My Beloved, My Lovely
One, Come
My love lifts up his voice, he says to me,
'Come then, my beloved, my lovely one, come.
For see, winter is past,
The rains are over and gone.
'Flowers are appearing on the earth.
The season of glad songs has come,
The cooing of the turtledove
Is heard in our land.
The fig tree is forming its first figs
And the blossoming vines give out
Their fragrance.
Come then, my beloved,
My lovely one, come.
(The Song of Songs
2:10-13 NJB)
Yesterday I completed my
thirty-six sessions of cardiac rehabilitation. In my visit to my cardiologist a
few weeks ago, he noted that I had been re-vesselized, and was now free of cardio-vascular
disease. Hallelujah! In advance of graduation from rehab I have been meditating
on this passage from Song of Songs (aka Song of Solomon) It certainly is
appropriate as winter has finally left Western North Carolina (we had a freeze
warning just a week ago), and we are enjoying a glorious rebirth of nature as
spring blossoms and the sounds of song birds fill the air. I need Solomon’s
wisdom and prose today because far too often I allow the cacophony shouting at
me to drown out the gentle voice of God calling to me, “Come then, my beloved, My lovely one, come.”
Brennan Manning said that he
marked as a milestone the interior development of moving from, “I should pray”
to “I must pray.” I first pulled back from that statement because I shy away
from words such as ought, must, should, and have to. To me, those words carry a
connotation of guilt that violate Paul’s liberating proclamation, “So now there
is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1) However,
I am coming to realize that indeed, I must pray.
I need air to breathe, water to
drink and food to eat. Without these I will die. So also, I need to be loved,
accepted and to have a sense of self-worth. Without these I may not die physically,
but I’ll be dead to life. God alone can satisfy my needs for love, acceptance
and worth; and God can only meet those needs when I am in communion with Him.
Thus, I am indeed desperate for Him, I am indeed lost without Him and I must
pray in order to live.
Why then does it seem so hard for
me to give myself over to uninterrupted quiet time, allowing myself to hear the
voice of the One who is furiously longing for me saying, “Come then, my beloved, My lovely one, come”? Because the enemy of
God, our adversary will do everything in his power to obliterate the liberating
voice of God. Even so, the furious longing of God will never, ever quit. He’ll
keep calling and calling and calling out to me until I can hear His sweet voice
say, “Come then, my beloved, My lovely
one, come.”
And, I’ll come. With tears of joy
streaming down my cheeks, I’ll come. I’ll bet you will too.
Sē’lah
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(Selah is a word that appears in the
Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my
correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about
these things.)
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Meditations on
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