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May 09 2020

Spikenard – The Overflow of Love (Song 1:12)

05/09/2020

While the king is reclining,⁠1 my spikenard spreads forth its fragrance. – Song 1:12

It’s a humbling awareness, for a humble soul, that one smells good, and someone is drawn to you for that reason. Sometimes one even forgets they are wearing perfume! Have you ever had that happen? You put on a fragrance in the morning, and get so used to the smell that you completely forget about it during the day? That is, until someone later on comments that you smell good!

Jesus is our mirror, and His smile will reflect back to us and tell us that our faith and works of love are pleasing to Him. When in the divine presence of God, we may on one hand be aware of our stench. But that is not what she says. This is important. I feel a sense of despair whenever I hear God’s children talk about how wretched they are. This is not the result of love’s transformation! Love makes us clean, and gives us the perfume of spikenard to wear. Not to cover our stench, but to delight our Beloved, Jesus, and draw all people to Him!

Are we ashamed of this, our smell? Paul makes it sound like it’s a great honor:

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May 07 2020

An Odoriferous Intro to Song 1:12-14

05/07/2020

A sweet thing happened when the Shulamite followed the King’s instructions. And an unexpected thing, when she went on that brave journey to find him. What else, but that she got gushed over! And adorned with thoughtful gifts!

But that’s just like Jesus, is it not, from your experience? He sees all the brave little …

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Apr 28 2020

The Ministry of Beautification (Song 1:10)

04/28/2020

In a discussion of differences between men and women, I once heard a comical depiction of men and a “cave” that they sometimes emotionally and mentally retreat into. There is apparently nothing in this cave, which is exactly how they like it, and a women especially isn’t allowed, (although they try) because if she did get in, she would take one look around and begin decorating it with pictures, rugs, and curtains! :-)

Women generally do love to decorate, whether it’s their homes, their men, or themselves. I used to think it was a natural feminine trait, but I’m rethinking this, knowing more than ever that deep in the heart of the woman, i.e. the Bride of Christ, there is a desire more powerful than to decorate. It is to be decorated.

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Apr 27 2020

A Humble Metal Worker Gets a Knock On The Door…

04/27/2020

Something beautiful is happening. In a humble and secluded corner of God’s Kingdom, a simple servant has been employed by the King of Israel to make some adornments for the Bride. Tirelessly working through the night and day, the metal worker labors in his craft to do his very best. He thinks back to yesterday, when Solomon came knocking on his door.

“It’s for my beautiful mare!” Solomon told him, his face beaming with a great smile. The old man glanced at him, puzzled. But the king went on to explain more…

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Apr 22 2020

The Courage of the Bridal Mare

04/22/2020

I’m noticing something in my study of the Song of Songs. Translations cannot be fully trusted to give an accurate picture of all that should be conveyed. Some seem to even tamper with the meaning, watering verses down to make them less offensive. I blame religion for this, who is knowingly or unknowingly always coming up with ways to strip the Bride of her association with Christ’s offense — thus making people fit their perfect ideal of “who gets in, and who stays out.” In 1:9 for example, a few versions translate “my mare” as a “company of horses,” when the Hebrew is clearly a female horse, who is among Pharaoh’s horses. But of course this would be a problem for the ancient mind. Often, and for a variety of suggestive details, a comparison of a woman to a mare or filly in poetic literature was a provocative one. In addition to that, horses in general were often associated with a pagan, extravagant lifestyle as well.

But there’s more to it than even this!

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Apr 19 2020

Trust in God, and Move On

04/19/2020

Confusion. Hype. Mis-information mixed with information. With an open mind to both mainstream and alternative news about the Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic, a discovery is soon made that nobody can be fully trusted. Not those in the limelight, nor those in the underground. Everyone is operating with partial knowledge at best, or diabolical agendas at worst.

It’s ironic, living in an “age of information,” how un-informing (or deforming) it really is!

As for having anything more to add to the subject, I just have what I already wrote here, and the rest I leave for those who have other spiritual insights.

Overwhelmingly — my sense is that the Spirit is CRYING through all the chaos, for the Bride to make herself ready, and to seek a Kingdom that does not shake. (See Hebrews 12:26-28 and Revelation 19:7) I also keep hearing “three years” in my Spirit, and yet I don’t know if that is for just for me, for the world, or for what exactly.

But as a response to the Spirit’s call, and in returning to a study of the Song, (there will be a new post in a few days, Lord willing!) — my prayer is for a DEEP anchor in the tide that is pulling me/us away from a focused relationship on Christ and HIS Kingdom. The foundations of this world is quickly shifting under our feet. Which way they shift matters little — when our ETERNAL house is built on the Rock.

Beware of deception, the Spirit reminds us. Trust only God, and those sources that move your spirit to love, to be pure, and to go hard after Christ. The rest is shaky sand!

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Apr 02 2020

‘Tis Bethany

04/02/2020

The last few weeks I noticed it’s been more difficult than usual to sit down and write. Part of this is a concern for how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting the world. It is surreal, isn’t it, to know everyone is in the same boat, rocking to the same storm? I feel like the world is somewhere between hanging on for dear life, and trying to find a new rhythm to something that does not seem to be going away anytime soon.

I have confidence I’ll be returning to the Song soon. It’s interesting where we left off, too! But meanwhile it seems important right now to en-COURAGE one another in whatever way possible, as often as possible. I need it. I know we all need it.

Recently I recalled a poem that the Spirit gave me some years ago during a stormy time.

I’d like to share it today, with a prayer that it might bless somebody…

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Mar 22 2020

The Coronavirus ~ and a Clash of Two Crowns

03/22/2020

Believe it or not — the coronavirus is in the Song of Songs! We’ll have to jump to Chapter 3, to a part that always puzzled me until now.

But first, it will help to know how this virus was named. Corona means “crown,” and it was named for its spike-like appendages and encircling shape when viewed under a microscope.

But there’s more to a crown than meets the eye! A crown is worn by someone, specifically a king and/or queen, and so a crown also represents a kingdom and its authority. Basically, if you serve a crown, you serve whoever wears it.

Think about this: There is a spiritual reason why a virus named after a crown has recently been…

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