Feb 25 2021
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me, Song 2:6
Such eye-candy, isn’t it, the embrace of verse 6? It feels like there’s no getting around it. Or out from under it. The lover has his bride locked down in love! She is hemmed in, or encircled, as the Psalmist said of himself. (Psalm 139:5)
I always admired my Dad’s arms. Sometimes over-protective, but mostly kind, safe, and strong. They come to mind now when…
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Jan 31 2021
Overwhelmed with bliss are all
who will entwine their hearts in him, Isaiah 30:18 (TPT)
A brother shared with me about a recent experience, of spending an entire week in the intimate presence of God. Every day, through long, intense hours, he was getting revelations poured into him. It was, as he said, “powerful and humbling,” but in the end, he felt spent.
What he described is something I greatly covet. I’ve had times of this, so can relate, but they don’t happen as often as I’d like. I’m blessed more often by…
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Feb 25 2020
Sometimes there’s no perfect time to do it. Love is bursting for expression, and what others think about your timing, or your method, is irrelevant. Your face is set like flint to “do the thing,” because it is love that motivates you and that is all that matters!
This kind of love doesn’t overthink, or analyze the situation. It might know that it’s a “crazy” idea, but it can’t be talked out of it.
This is where our story with the Shulamite continues….
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Feb 19 2020
There are some biblical scholars who can’t reconcile the way Solomon is portrayed in the Song of Songs. How can a great king, with all his kingdom responsibilities, be romping the hills outside Jerusalem, checking vineyards, and even moving sheep around like a lowly shepherd? I would like to ask them, “How is this not a most beautiful representation of Jesus Christ?” He is the King of kings, the “last Adam,” and our “Good Shepherd” — all in one person.
Besides, why wouldn’t Solomon have experience with things like shepherding? His father David was one by trade, and would have encouraged the young king-to-be to play outdoors and learn animal husbandry. It is recorded Solomon had astounding wisdom about nature.¹ And he owned many animals and vineyards that he put into the care of others.² Would he not check his flocks, and even for recreation spend time with his shepherd friends?
Anyway, this is where the next scene in the story begins: The Woman wakes up one morning to discover Solomon is not in bed beside her. He’s on a shepherding mission, she finds out — and she wants to know where…
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Dec 19 2019
We quickly sense in the opening cry of the Bride, that this Woman has tasted something in the love of Solomon that has completely changed her life. She is intoxicated by him, and every fiber of her being is filled with a self-giving purpose to exist. If she ever had any addictions or unhealthy habits, they are melted away. The passion of being newly in love has a way of doing that!
There is a principle that says, and I believe it is true: “The cure for addiction is not sobriety. It is connection.”
Meaning, “just saying no” is not the answer to the hole in the human heart, that fills itself with various substitutes for true intimacy. Cut something unhealthy out of your life – and feel no higher meaning for being alive in the first place – and it won’t be long before something else unhealthy comes rushing in to fill the void.
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Jan 01 2014
“I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; Of squeezing it into little inkdrops and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.”
Being in love and in a wilderness – is there any more wrenching place to be?
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