Post by juanitalynn on Apr 25, 2007 9:04:17 GMT -5
We are having revival this week. And the preacher preached on "A complicated Christian". The scripture was in the Song of Solomon 5:8
5:1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
5 I 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.
6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
He preached on how many times we have done the same thing the shutimite did. Jesus calls, but we are to comfortable to go to him. He called out to her, he wanted fellowship, but she said no, she was already in bed & her feet where clean. But when she decided, SHE wanted fellowship, he was gone. How we like to have Jesus on our terms & not on His.
This message reminded me of times I would go to bed & not study or read. And in that still small voice I would hear.... you need to read....get up and read....you will receive a blessing is you would get up and read..... the times I would get up, the Lord would bless me in His word, and what wonderful fellowship we would have. But other times, in my laziness, wouldn't get up & tell myself, I will read & fellowship in the morning. And in the morning, I would read, but I couldn't get anything...nothing....zilch...nada..... He had already left, I had missed the blessing and fellowship, because I was to comfortable in bed. And other times the Lord impressed upon my heart to do something, just out of inconvenience, I wouldn't.
Can you just image how heart broken Solomon was when he was told no by his beloved. And how he had prepared himself & was ready for her, but she rejected him. Imagine our precious Jesus when we reject Him out of inconvenience or whatever the case may be. I sure don't want to break His heart anymore. My prayer to Jesus was to make me always aware, and never to reject him, no matter where or when. ;D
5:1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
5 I 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.
6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
He preached on how many times we have done the same thing the shutimite did. Jesus calls, but we are to comfortable to go to him. He called out to her, he wanted fellowship, but she said no, she was already in bed & her feet where clean. But when she decided, SHE wanted fellowship, he was gone. How we like to have Jesus on our terms & not on His.
This message reminded me of times I would go to bed & not study or read. And in that still small voice I would hear.... you need to read....get up and read....you will receive a blessing is you would get up and read..... the times I would get up, the Lord would bless me in His word, and what wonderful fellowship we would have. But other times, in my laziness, wouldn't get up & tell myself, I will read & fellowship in the morning. And in the morning, I would read, but I couldn't get anything...nothing....zilch...nada..... He had already left, I had missed the blessing and fellowship, because I was to comfortable in bed. And other times the Lord impressed upon my heart to do something, just out of inconvenience, I wouldn't.
Can you just image how heart broken Solomon was when he was told no by his beloved. And how he had prepared himself & was ready for her, but she rejected him. Imagine our precious Jesus when we reject Him out of inconvenience or whatever the case may be. I sure don't want to break His heart anymore. My prayer to Jesus was to make me always aware, and never to reject him, no matter where or when. ;D