Comments on: There She Stands – Faced With The Bittersweetness Of Myrrh (Song 1:3) https://intimatekingdom.com/bitter-sweetness-of-myrrh-1-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bitter-sweetness-of-myrrh-1-3 A conversational study through the Song of Songs Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:23:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Darlene Rose https://intimatekingdom.com/bitter-sweetness-of-myrrh-1-3/#comment-1612 Sun, 29 Dec 2019 14:17:35 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=2725#comment-1612 “….the Shulamite knows that Myrrh has two sides to it, and that true intimacy is costly.” That’s the thing isn’t it? At first we learn of Christ and are drawn to all He has done for us, but He woos us, loves us, and reveals Himself to us that it no longer becomes about what He can do for us, but that we must be with Him because He is our very life. Any sorrow or persecution that comes as a result of our intimacy with Him becomes nothing as we know true sorrow, true pain, true death is a result of not having known Him at all. This is myrrh. The sweetness of His life, the bitterness of the Cross we now take up.

]]> By: Pamela https://intimatekingdom.com/bitter-sweetness-of-myrrh-1-3/#comment-1610 Fri, 27 Dec 2019 14:26:16 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=2725#comment-1610 In reply to TheSonsAreFree.

That’s true, Jack, and I see the connection you made. It reminds me of the saying, “Your name (or reputation) precedes you.”

]]> By: TheSonsAreFree https://intimatekingdom.com/bitter-sweetness-of-myrrh-1-3/#comment-1609 Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:38:41 +0000 http://intimatekingdom.com/?p=2725#comment-1609 “and your name is like anointing oil that’s being poured out.” (1:3a)

It’s so unfortunate there aren’t better words than “name” in the English language to convey the original Hebrew word …

Like a word that conveys something like your “essence” or “very being” – his “countenance” … the impression I get from that passage is that Solomon saturated to the point of expressing/oozing the oil of anointing …

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