As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Song of Solomon 2:2
I am reading through Song of Solomon. He has given me a fascination for lilies:) I want to know His heart in this beautiful flower…among others. Oh, if we could just understand that all around us is teaching us of Him. There is no flower, star, field, or blowing wind that does not point to our Savior. For Elohim…the triune creator is ever trying to get our attention!
Song of Solomon is such a fearful book for some…yet as His daughter I see His pursuit of His bride. His passion for His people…He is relentlessly in love with us. Not in a way we humanly think..but in a perfect and pure love that fills every need and longing. For He is love…Himself.
Us daughters long for the one who fully knows us, accepts us, and loves us tenderly. Christ is this one…there is no human who can fill this need in us. The same is for men…
We were created by Him…by hand…and will never have fulfillment, joy, peace, and heavenly love without a relationship with Christ. He is the great romance! He is the knight in shining armor! He is our All in All! His Word will cause you to fall in love with Him over and over again…
Your Word is of paramount importance
Each word a treasure itself
Hidden are jewels and gemstones
Rich in life giving wealth.
The living and breathing Christ
Wrapped up on black and white page
Speaking His heart to His people
And drawing the lost to His gaze.
It’s full of delight and beautiful love signs
My heart at times swells to burst
For Your Word reminds me of much, Lord
And quenches my deep need and thirst.
(Shelly Wilson, April 15, 2015)
Beloved, the grandest facts in all the world to a truly spiritual man are not the rise and fall of empires, the marches of victory, or the desolations of defeat; he cares neither for crowns nor mitres, swords nor shields; his admiring gaze is wholly fixed upon Christ and his cross and cause. To him Jesus is the center of history, the soul and core of providence. He desires no knowledge so much as that which concerns his Redeemer and Lord; his science deals with what Jesus is and what he is to be, what he has done, what he is doing, and what he will do. The believer is mainly anxious as to how Jesus can be glorified, and how sinners can be brought to know him. That which concerns the honor of Jesus is our chief concern from day to day; as for other matters let the Lord do as he wills with them, only let Jesus Christ be magnified, and all the rest of the world’s story has small significance for us. The Beloved is the head and front, the heart and soul of the Christian’s delight when his heart is in its best state. Our text is the portrait of a heavenly-minded child of God, or rather, it is the music of his well stringed harp when love as minstrel touches the tenderest chords: “My beloved is mine, and I am his; he feedeth among the lilies.”
Charles Spurgeon
