"The Beholder"

"Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead." (S.O.S. 4:1)

  Maybe you might be wondering who is beholding who, and if there is really any big difference, or if it really even matters? Maybe you were raised in a way that you were shown all of your flaws and not praised for anything you did right? After all, doing what are told was expected; not listening to what you were told to do, simply was not tolerated.
  This takes on more of a spiritual connection to love than it does the love between two people; but if it causing you to feel uneasy, you are free to look away and pretend it never happened! Seriously, isn't that what takes place within our hearts? Maybe that is what we expect, to be shown all that needs to be fixed or corrected, because being shown everything beautiful about us makes us very uneasy and unable to live up to the image we are shown.
  During the night, I had a very strange dream about yesterdays post; whether or not it makes it to the light of day, I really don't know quite yet, as I have not yet uncovered the connection. But this much I will reveal, that it involved those three separate sections or breaks in the Scripture, and the three levels of our salvation: Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification.
  No matter what you might think of your particular calling, and how unimportant or important you might be, you are not the main attraction of the story: The Beholder is HE! It is and always will be the reason, from, and by, and to, that the Story is written: Christ Jesus, the Risen King!
  This might be the most important part of our individual stories: in Whose' eyes we see ourselves, and if we believe He knows what He sees...

"Then what's the advantage of being a Jew? Is there any value in the ceremony of circumcision? Yes, there are great benefits! First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the whole revelation of God. True, some of them were unfaithful; but just because they were unfaithful, does that mean God will be unfaithful? Of course not! Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say about him, "You will be proved right in what you say, and you will win your case in court."" (Romans 3:1-4) NLT