"Friend of God!"

 "I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour." (S.O.S. 8:10)

  ""You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills will bust into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands! Where once there were thorns, cypress trees will grow. Where nettles grew, myrtles will sprout up. These events will bring great honor to the LORD'S name; they will be an everlasting sign of his power and love."" (Isaiah 55:12-13 NLT)

  So, in order to appreciate the power that is being presented within this verse, I would recommend that it be considered by reading it backwards; as if to say, 'When I in his eyes am as one that found favor, I am a wall, and my breasts like towers.' In a sense, it is a lot like when Jesus asked Peter, "Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" (John 21:17) In this case, Jesus used a version of the word, "Love," that was different then the one in the first two questions; the first two questions used the word, "Agapao," which is the kind of love expressed towards something; as if the direction of the will and finding one's joy in anything. The third time Jesus asked, He used the word, "Phileo," which means to love with the meaning of having common interests with another: To befriend someone. 

  In the long short of it, if you know that God loves you just as you are, then it makes you more aware of His love for you, especially in those moments you might feel unlovable! It is that understanding of His love that makes you fortified and able to stand tall in the times of being tested. Not that God will be testing you, because He does not need to test us, nor does He need to know how our testing will turn out: God does not need to be tested on His knowledge of who we are! It was not for God's benefit that Abraham was told to sacrifice Isaac; but to cause Abraham's faith to be stretched, as in, to believe that God would and was able to raise Isaac back up from the dead!  

  It is the same point with this, as she sees herself a wall and with breasts like towers, she realized that is God's work performed upon her, not of her own doing. The same might be used to explain the way we are bombarded with things that cause us to feel vulnerable, right after we pray that God would please give us peace; we cannot realize the peace we have in God, until God is all we have left to hold onto! Everything else, everything! is just sifting sand; it cannot be held onto and it will not hold onto us; only in God can we find safety and security that is real and unbreakable. 

  This, Matthew Henry says to explore our knowing of His security: "See, what she values herself upon, her having found favour in the eyes of Jesus Christ. Those are happy, truly happy, and for ever so, that have the favour of God and are accepted of him." This is not just something we must believe, it is something that we need to live out in our lives! As the case for Jesus telling Peter, "Feed my sheep." What is it that we have to feed with, is pretty much the same as Jesus used, His body! What He did by dying for our sins, was not just to wash us and give us freedom from sin; but it was to feed us with the knowledge and the understanding of God's love for us; even in that sinful state, He loved us: Always had, Always will...

"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into his grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God" (Romans 5:1-2)