"No Other Place For Me"

"Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me: for Thou art the God of my salvation; on Thee do I wait all the day." (Psalms 25:5) Whether or not you like it, I am trying to close with the writings of Solomon for many of these verses; especially from The Song of Songs, otherwise known as The Song of Solomon. As with the verse we closed with yesterday, we must realize what and where we are before we can truly appreciate where we need to be. The most important thing for us to hold unto is our salvation, for without that we are lost and have nothing to look forward to beyond this life. Having said that, there is still the matter of learning who God is and understanding how He wants us to finish off our days upon this earth. Yes, it's true that God takes us unto Himself, and that He never will leave us or forsake us; but we are responsible for our actions and for what we do with this great gift that we have been given. In other words; when we know what we have become, we are responsible in becoming it and living it out in our lives. That might seem like something that looks like work, or a task to hard for us to carry out on our own; and if it does, that's good, because we are not meant to do it on our own! That's the whole point of why we need His guidance in our lives, because without Him guiding our lives, we are seriously lost! We must realize where we need to be, and then stay there! We need to remain beneath the shadow of His wing, and we need to know when we are not, so that we can get there as quick as possible. Some may ask, How do you know when you are not? Oh, you know; and if you say that you don't, then you are kidding yourself and have been to long in sin. You will know, and sin is the reason you have stepped out from under His wing. When it comes to getting right with God, we are never to far from His forgiveness; in other words, we can never stray far enough away that He will not forgive us. That is why we must understand and believe how much He loves us, because His love is always there for us; even when we have fallen into the deepest sin imaginable, He is there to welcome us back, with arms stretched out! David knew this better than anyone, for he had some pretty good reasons to have learned about God's great forgiveness. Solomon also had been given great knowledge of God's amazing love; which he expressed in great detail through The Song of Songs; some of which is hard to comprehend, but once you see what is being said, you can understand why God wants us to know how much He loves us...(Our realization!) "I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me." (His desire is!) "Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grapes appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved." (Song of Solomon 7:10-13)