"Side By Side"

 "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies." (S.O.S. 4:5)

  Having been called to give a message before, or a teaching, as many might prefer, I know what it is like to prepare for such a challenge. The more you think you know, the harder it is to deliver something that ministers to you, the deliverer; but the greater you are spoken to, the more excited you are to share your message. I guess you can call that being inspired; which is something I look for in almost every single one of these little mornings I spend doing this, that God would speak into my heart and either remind me of something I need to know, or that He would reveal something to me that I do not know.

  We must always be prepared for revelation; this is the point of Peter's statement about the sincere milk of the word; as we are never done growing in the Lord, no matter how long you have been a Christian, or even if you have been teaching the Bible for many decades; if we ever assume that we no longer have anything to learn, we will find ourselves shutting our hearts to what God might have to reveal in us. That is really never a place we want to be! 

  This is a little more complicated than just talking about two breasts; because this is more about two ways or two means of being enlightened or ministered to; whether you know it or not, any time you open up the Word of God to be taught, you are being taught from Two sources: God's Word and God's Holy Spirit. It is something special that we have as a believer, where the Holy Spirit that dwells within us speaks and affirms the message that the Word delivers within us. 

  It is considered by some, that these two breasts represent the Two Testaments, the Old and the New; side by side that they are two separate Books, but One in the same! Jesus said, speaking to those that were well studied in the Scriptures, (John 5,) that there were Two witnesses of Him and that gave Him authority and verified what He said was true. At one point in His message He said: "You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life." (John 5:36 NLT) 

  Before you can inherit eternal life, you must first pass from death to life; there is absolutely no other way to say that; but once you have been given it, you have both the satisfaction and the yearning all at the same time. On the one side you are living out the hope; while on the other, hope is not yet realized. If you will, this same principle applies to our reading and studying God's word: We are always presently with Him, but not yet in His presence...

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." (Romans 8:14-17)