"How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O queenly maiden. Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of skilled craftsman. Your navel is perfectly formed like a goblet filled with mixed wine. Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat bordered with lilies. Your two breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle. Your neck is as beautiful as an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the sparkling pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is as fine as the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus. Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel, and the sheen of your hair radiates royalty. The king is held captive by its tresses. Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights! You are slender like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit. I said, "I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruit." May your breasts be like grape clusters, and the fragrance of your breath like apples. May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine, flowing gently over lips and teeth." (S.O.S. 7:1-9 NLT)
Remember, these are verses two through nine in the Hebrew text, so the final verse of chapter six would have been part of this conversation. However, there are many historical translators that have little or no regard for this book, as many deny it is worthy of being included, mostly because of the content within what is shown above. And then, there are those who believe it to be one of the most amazing, illustrative, and complex writings that has ever been written; and, I am beginning to think I agree!
Let me start this off with a simple reminder: If you cannot believe that God could creative the earth and heavens in the time specified, six days, then you will be limited in your understanding of everything that God is able to do. If it takes faith to understand that God is capable of doing anything, then that same faith is needed to understand how much He loves you, regardless of who or what you were! God's view is to see you for what you are in Him; that you are wonderfully and beautifully made in His image. How that is to be pictured, is something that is beyond our current understanding; but as John describes it: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." (1 John 3:2)
I do not know or understand a whole lot of stuff, but what I do understand is that God loves me and that He has done everything that He could to save me! If the God that created all of this, just like He said He could, did all that He could to save us from utter destruction, then I believe that we are saved indeed! There is no turning back from that! Even if it were possible, I believe that He will not allow it to happen: His law of sanctification will not permit it, because once He makes something pure and perfect, it remains pure and perfect in His sight! There is no other Judge, so if He sees you perfect, then you are perfect indeed!
You can agree to disagree if you like; but it will not change anything, except how you feel! Do you feel safe and secure? Doubtful of your eternal security? Frail and afraid of death or dying? These are questions that need to be asked and answered; it is not even a question of maybe, but what is in your heart! If you were told today that you are going to die, what would your heart say? Crazy, is just an excuse to express yourself in ways that you would not otherwise; but this is not something I believe can be easily pushed off or overlooked.
If we do not totally believe what we are doing, then why do we believe it will matter in the end...
"Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay; but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." (Romans 3:27-31)
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