"How beautiful you are my darling, how beautiful! Your eyes are like doves." (S.O.S. 1:15 NLT)
By now I think you see the direction this is going; as it is, there are several indicators here that the Song Of Songs, as many refer to it, is called that because it declares the victory there is in trusting God, regardless of anything or everything else! I couldn't help but think of that joke about the man hanging onto the root, as he was dangling off the the side of a cliff; as he cries out for help, a voice answer, "I am here, and I hear you." The man answers back, "Can you save me?" The voice says, "Yes, I can save you." The man, with desperation, says, "Will you save me?" The voice says, "Yes, I will save you." (The answer given as if there is really nothing to worry about.) The man, seemingly feeling desperate and out of time, says, "What do I need to do!" The voice gently says, "Let go of the root."
Obviously, if you were to think about it, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. What is it that God uses to show us His mercy and grace? What has it always been, from the very beginning? It has been broken people with hope! People that failed to be perfect, but had their hope placed in a perfect God! Not only was He a perfect God, but He loved His people with a perfect love; the kind of love that sees the beauty in what He has created, because it is His darling creation, which He not only formed with His own hands, but breathed life into it, making it a living soul; a soul that was connected to His Spirit!
We cannot begin to imagine all that God has planned for our lives, because our lives involve plans that far exceed this life here on this earth. I say that with all seriousness, because it is impossible to even begin to think about what heaven will be like. There are people that say that they might have seen it or somehow experienced it; but bright lights and streets of gold are not what will make it the most spectacular thing about beings there: it will be that we are in God's presence, yet we are not vaporized or dissolved; rather we are radiated by His light and made to shine. How else can He point to us, saying, "Look at the beautiful darling creation that I have made!"
God's ways are not our ways; yet we are always second guessing the way God is working ways out! His thoughts are not our thoughts; yet we keep thinking how we can help Him change us, improve our situation, or make ourselves more perfect. Yet, He just wants us to let go of what keeps us from trusting completely in Him...
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Romans 8:1-4)
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