"Resolution"

"My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi." (S.O.S. 1:14)

  Whatever you think it was, it was not enough! That might be something we somehow need to get use to, because if you are looking for a magic fix to all of life's issues and problems, you have come to the wrong place. The Lord has never promised us that it would be easy, not in any way; as a matter of fact, He told us to be prepared for trials and tribulation; to be ready for persecutions and people hating us. As He put it quite clearly, "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." (John 15:18)
  Now, if you still doubt who and when this Book might have written, there is a little something that we must examine about consecration, because it has no relevance without resolution. If you need to be reminded, it is a lot like a ship that has set out for any particular destination; it might set out to go straight, but there are various changes in the direction; but no matter what, the destination remain the same. Whatever the reason might be, there are always some things that become issues, problems, or just natural things to go around; but whatever be the case, the destination remains the same.
  I know that I can sometimes get a little of track; maybe a little above the fray, as if I am looking down at the struggle of others; but this is not about whether or not we can make it through life's issues or problems, it is about what God says about where we will be ending up! Beyond anything else, that is what matters most of all: Where will I be when this life is over! What does God say about that, because that is what I need to focus on: that is my destination, no matter what!
  The thing we need to remember, more than anything else, is that Jesus Christ has paid the price; which means that we are free from needing to pay anything! Yet, somehow, we still feel as though we must pay something, or it just doesn't feel right. We can never repay Him for what He has done, not in a million years! So what do we do with that, and how does that change us?
 Matthew Henry gives us a little hint of that, saying, "There is a complicated sweetness in Christ and an abundance of it; there is a bundle of myrrh and a cluster of camphire. We are not straitened in him whom there is all fulness." We must just rest in Him, with what we know He says about the matter, no matter the what...

"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:39)