“Who is this coming up out of the wilderness leaning on her beloved?” (Song 8:5). The bride is coming up from the wilderness— from the wilderness of this fallen world, from the testing, the disappointments, and the expectations that did not happen in the way she thought they would happen. She is not offended, nor passive, nor given up her vision. She is leaning on her Beloved, trusting Him, and she is not offended at Him. She has not said, “Well, this does not really work so I think I will just spiritually coast the last couple of decades of my life. I love Jesus. He loves me. I will see Him in heaven, and I will just stay a little busy between now and then and do a little bit for Him, but mostly not really lay hold of Him.” No, she is leaning. Leaning in this sense is a very strong statement of her connectedness. What is being said here is that she is looking to Him, she is reaching to Him, and she has no life outside of Him. Beloved, do you have faith—I do not mean for the Body of Christ only—for you yourself to come up victorious in love? Is that a vision you have for yourself? Is this something that you think about, that you talk to the Lord about? “The Lord is my destiny! It is my calling to come up victorious from the testings of the wilderness of this fallen world, the disappointments, the pain, the setbacks, the temptations, the bitterness, the temptations of all these other things.” Do you have a vision for this? Can you see yourself in Song 8:5?
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:30:22 +0000
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