“Let us Hurry” Make haste and be Intimate with your husband/Husband
The bride in the Song of Songs chapter 1:4 is intensely desiring close intimacy with Solomon, the King of Kings who sat on God’s throne (2 Chronicles 9:8) with unmeasurable wisdom. She doesn’t want to waist any time. She takes off like a mare in battle for her king. God is her King and her King would want her to have the closest most intimate relationship possible with the greatest type of Christ to have lived thus far. That would be Solomon, the lesser Christ but greater than all the other messiahs thus far.
If you are born again God has given you His Holy Spirit, a Spirit of Love. Love is written on your heart. It is a Holy Love the third person of the trinity, renewing God’s image on your heart. Positionally in Christ, God see’s us as perfect. Get this…
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, one in three, three in one, always was and is and will be in perfect communion one with the other. The Father behold the Son, Perfect in infinite Beauty! No being is more Beautiful than Christ. Listen up!! As the Father always beheld His Son, You were in that sight. God viewed you in Christ before the foundation of the world. You and Christ were one. United by faith and love.
The perfect Beauty God beheld was Christ one with His Bride, there is nothing more beautiful than that!!!! The stricter your union with Christ the more beautiful you are and in some sense the more beautiful Christ is for they are one as the Father and Son are one (John 17).
The Spirit is likened to a flame in Song of Songs 8:6. Particularly Love in marriage with the greatest type of Christ. This flame of God is unquenchable and ever burns hotter, this love is the heart beat of the “mare harnessed to pharaoh’s chariot in battle” Song 1:9 to the degree that this flame is written on your heart is is in direct proportion to the nearness you gave to God. The greater the Love you have to God the closer you are to an infinite God of Love or God in Christ. The closer you are the stricter the union. God is close to the broken hearted. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you as He humbles you in His Presence.
Hurry, make yourself more beautiful and run, have no limits to the speed and intensity possible for you in your pursuit of holiness, Love to Christ, Joy and delight in Him alone, denying yourself and following Christ a fast and close as possible! Let us hurry, please LORD take us faster and closer to you for you are the One our heart loves. You are The Beloved above all other beloved, a friend beyond measure, always by my side. Your sweet Word speaks encouragement to my heart. Your Glory and Beauty at the cross is beyond measure. Oh, we praise You!!
The closer you get to God, the greater your conviction of sin is. Do you grieve more now for the same you committed 5 years ago? Do you hate your sin more now than before and that righteous hatred of sin manifests itself by you cleaning the inside of your heart. Confessing pride. The self righteous don’t mourn over their pride. Do you think you can get to heaven by your own good works? Think again, blessed are the poor in Spirit. The self righteous are sick. Jesus came to save both the self righteous and the poor sinner. Do you feel yourself a poor sinner? Poorer now than 2 years ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago. He who began a good work in you will keep that flame going for it is unquenchable. That sweet flame of Love you have in your heart for Jesus will forever burn more steadfast, taste sweeter and get hotter. Burning with increasing intensity closer to the One you love. Bonus, even in heaven you will grow in your love for your saved family in heaven, and you won’t argue at all.
You are close to the broken hearted, draw us closer as we grieve and confess sin, hurry, waste no time oh LORD my God. Overcome all my difficulties in battling sin and save me from temptation for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the Glory forever. Amen.
Okay all that above was introduction, things on my mind. Now to what I really want to say. Some words to those out there really pursuing a closer more intimate relationship with Christ. I would like to give a word of encouragement to those out there who think they are not living up to God’s standard for you in your life. I want to speak to those out there who continue to see yourself failing and wonder if you will ever move forward. I want to speak to those who were moving forward and now think they have fallen back further than before!!
Jesus came to save sinners. Are you sinning? Yes. Jesus came to save you from the penalty of sin, presence of sin in your life now and completely in the future.
You see your sin because you trying to go closer to God. God is perfectly holy and we are not like Him. He see’s His Bride as perfect though she has remaining sin mixed in with her good works. Christ accepts your best. Christ came to save sinners. Sinner are weak. Do you feel weak? Do you feel and sense your weakness to obey God on your own is impossible? Do you feel yourself weaker than before? Oh, sinner, blessed are the poor in Spirit for they will be comforted as they look to Christ on the cross bearing the penalty for their sin, Christ Loves the Father, the Father Loves the Son, The Father sent His Son to bear the sins of His Bride. Christ bearing the sins of His Bride is the most beautiful sight. Christ displaying His Love to His Bride by dying for her sins. No Greater love is this that Christ died for His enemies so that they could be friends! Oh sinner think often upon Jesus. Sincerely cry out Lord save me from my sin, grieving over the fact that you have offended a Great God, Especially one that sent His Son for you, His only Beloved Son. Jesus Christ is merciful beyond your imagination. Think not that you have done to many sins that Jesus will not save me. This thought is of the devil. He comes to you in your sin to keep you from Jesus.
Satan tells you lies after you sin so that you will not draw near to God.
- One lie is a truth with a wrong application. Satan when you are thinking a truth, something like, “I am a sinner, I have done so much wrong, I have done a great evil….. These are all good and true thoughts… I am a sinner, saved by grace and faith in Christ. Satan will say to you “God is angry with you go do good to make up for the bad and earn God’s favor” this sounds good to you so you go try to change your life and keep failing because your motives are wrong. You life will not change until you have the right motive. You don’t do good to earn God’s favor, Jesus did that for us. We get Christ’s righteousness, whereby we are accepted by God by having his perfect life credited to our account as if we live the life of Jesus. His good deeds He did, His perfect life becomes ours, for we are one with Him.
- I have done much wrong, so much for so long. This is true you should have repented a long time ago and you new better. You have done much wrong for way to long, your conscience bears you witness. Have no fear of thinking you have gone to long in sin. Herein is God’s grace abounding much more. No reason to abuse His Grace by continuing in sin, but you will sometimes abuese His grace because you need to learn Romans 6. and
- The third thought was “I have done a great evil” this is true you have done a great evil against a great God and there is reason to fear Him punishing you if Christ didn’t pay for your sins. Those whom Christ paid for, they will be with Him in Heaven. So here are the truth and the lie.
In the Song when the bride recognized her dirty, unclean, prideful, selfish thoughts she would replace them with clean, holy, humble, love to God thoughts and feelings. This is compared to her teeth coming up out of the washing. You are washing away sinful thoughts, wrong applications, wrong views of God are being renewed, changed to right thoughts of God, Higher, and closer to the Truth are being embedded in your mind and feelings to greater degree’s as you behold the Glory of God in the face of Christ.
Okay back to what I was thinking about continuing in sin and the devil trying to keep you away from Jesus.
In the Old Testament a Jew would bring a sacrifice on different occasions. A sacrifice for sin. The jew had sinned and was convicted of it and knew they deserved death, for the wages of sin is death, for the day that you eat of it you will die. They knew they deserved to die and that God would forgive them on the basis of the innocent pure lamb dying in their place. The lamb didn’t die in their place, for it is only an animal. Put they knew the God would send a messiah that would die in their place. He will get bitten by the serpent, then crush His head. The sacrifice of the lamb was only symbolic. Representing a future messiah that would die a sacrifice for their sins. He would sit in their place. I implore you to take a lamb to the high priest because you know you are a sinner and know you deserve death but this innocent live lamb I have here will die in my place. That lamb that died in your place is Jesus Christ the Lamb sent by God to save His people from the Wrath of God by God turning His back on His Son, the most excruciating pain ever! Understanding how much He went through for us will be an ever increasing thought provoking ever increasing emotion or holy heart response of worship, humility, adoration, highly valuing and prizing your Pearl, enjoyment of Christ, delight in Him etc.
As it were, be Mary and hold Christ after he died on the cross. Hand Christ over to God as a Jew would hand the lamb over to the high priest when convinced of their sin, He died for me. Christ felt Your Wrath on my behalf and here He is, wounds still in His Hands seated on His Throne risen LORD of lords.
Mary calls God her Savior. Luke 1:47 When Jesus was born Mary knew Jesus would save her from her sins otherwise she would not have called God her Savior. Mary new she needed saving. Saving from what? Her sin, “for all have sinned” Romans 3:21
I pray you draw closer to God right after you sin. Immediately go to God with Christ. He is your Mediator. Christ will defend you poor wretched sinner! Even if your fire feels more like a smoking flax, Christ will no quench it for your love written on your heart is unquenchable!! He is on your side, arguing on your behalf and Christ always wins, not the devil.
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Saved in 2000 at age 27. Nearly immediately I fell in love with the Song and grew very fast the first two years memorizing large portions of scripture purifying my mind the started chewing on meat to soon and struggled for 12 years and Christ has me on track like always but I just took the long way around and now I love leading others closer to Christ by seeing His love reflected in Solomons love for an enemy slave girl.
I have experienced God's love to me in the Song in ways that words can't express. There are many portion of the Word where she experiences extra ordinary outpouring of the Holy Spirit of God. If you have a burning desire for a close intimate relationship with God by experiencing His Love to you over and over again at greater and greater heights, depths, lengths and breaths then The Song of Songs is where you need to be.
I can help you with this process of Growing in the experience of God's love. As of 7-23-16 I have experienced everything prior to chapter 8. The Song of Song is progressive in experience. Meaning that if you are mature then you can experience the joys and extraordinary outpourings of God's Love shed abroad in your heart.
If you are not so mature then the delights in the first chapter of the Song will satisfy your thirst for experiencing the Love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Many Christian are living in sin because they do not know how to experience God's love and get hooked on Loving Him. It feels good to be loved and to love Him. His burden is not heavy and His yoke is light, Jesus said in Matt. 10:28
I believe God wants to use me to help beautify His Bride through the Song of Solomon.
If you see the book literally you will not understand nor grasp the Love God has for you. If you see the book and the verses in it relating to Christ's love to you then I would love to show you how to experience this Love to the fullest. I will pray for you daily and guide you every step of the way.
16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
I grew up going to church but was a hypocrite. I lived my life how I chose but went to church on Sunday because my family went.
Mom and Dad divorced when I was about 5.
About this time I was sexually abused by "Bob" a made up name. This incident changed my life for the worst. I had no clue how to deal with it.
As I got older I grew in my hatred for Bob. I didn't blame anyone of my family because I was to young to know any better. Some of what happened during the abuse was in a bathroom. So overtime I would use the bathroom and look at my private parts that night would replay in my mind. My hatred for Bob would continue to grow each time.
Now I know this only happened to me one night. I can't image the pain other's go through who have had this happen to them over and over. Even as I write this now I cry with many tears for those hurting. God love you even though you may not know it or feel it. Go to Him in your time of need.
I was a really bad teenager. I only cared about myself and not even my family. I always came first in my mind. Even at the expense of hurting others. I was growing in my hatred for God by now.
I was going to church and was learned that God was in control. I thought well, if God was in control then He must have let me be sexually abused. I didn't understand this, How could a good and loving God allow this. I hated Him for it. My hatred for Bob grew as well. I was still using the bathroom and memories kept coming back. My heart grew even harder for Bob and God. As far as I was concerned God would have nothing to do with my life so I lived even worse. I thought I would be in jail or dead and I really didn't care, I thought it could be much worse than reliving your painful past over and over again. Little did I know that God's plan later would be to use these events to give me a burning passion for the closest most intimate love relationship with Himself through Christ mainly through the love poem in the Song of Songs in the Bible.
I remember hating Bob so much that the only thing that would relieve my pain was actually thinking he would suffer forever for what he did. I grew so much in my hatred for him that I had to continue to think that he would get even worse than what I imaged before. After some time I would only be relieved of hatred for him unless I thought he would burn in a hotter and hotter hell for all the suffering he put me through.
I never told my mom or family what happened, although I think some of them knew something had happened.
I grew up quite rebellious and even went to jail at the age of 20. I was living the fast life pursuing all my sinful desires and wanting more. It never seemed to be enough. I was quite happy in my sin but I just wanted more of it.
I lived life thinking I would die at a young age, riding motorcycle and living on the edge put me in the hospital many times and I should have been dead.
California at age 26.
I moved to California for a job opportunity at the age of 27. While trying to figure out what radio stations to program in my car, I ran across a RC Sproul talking about "people who have the faith that saves and people who only say that have faith" only the people who have the faith that saves will go to heaven. I thought "I don't think I have the faith that saves because my life was so bad." I searched the scriptures to try to get this faith. I found a church and thought people there could help me get this faith that saves. All along God kept showing me how sinful I was and that I deserved punishment from Him for living my life hating Him.
One weekend I read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John desperately trying to find out how to get this faith that saves. By now I knew that if you had the faith that saves that Jesus would be saving you from a life of sin. I still liked my sin and Jesus sure wasn't saving me from a life of sin, so I rightly concluded that I didn't have the faith that saves.
By the time I got to John, I saw "believe" everywhere. John 3:16 and other verses and wow the whole book was written so that you may believe. John 20:31 "these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." So at night I would pray "I believe Jesus died for me, I believe, I believe. This was just an intellectual belief. I knew that in history and the Bible that Jesus died for everyone, so I believed it. But this belief did not change my life.
I would go on night after night saying the same prayer only to wake up the next day wanting to fulfill my sinful desires. The prayer wasn't working so I started to word it different each time hoping some prayer would work. After about 2 weeks of this I was fed up with it all, nothing was happening. I still was living in my sin and wanted more of it. A Christian hates their sin and does something about it, and certainly they don't continue to make plans to sin. The prayers weren't working so I gave up. I thought to myself "God, I tried with all my might, I searched the Scriptures, went to church, read the Bible and prayed all to no avail. If Im going to be saved your going to have to do it because I tried."
So I quit praying but still the Bible kept calling me so I read more. 3 Days later I was laying in a tanning bed and God convicted me really hard that I had offended Him by the life I was living. I was so scared of God, where could I run. You can't hide from God. It seemed like forever that I was under these terrors of being punished by a Holy Angry God. This lasted about 10 minutes then this is how I understood it. God let me understand that all that anger that He had for me for all my sin should come my way but He had poured that anger out on Jesus 2,000 years ago. I immediately started weeping an couldn't stop for about 20 minutes. All the sins that I could think of I confessed for that 20 minutes one after another after another, I was so sorrowful and grieved it physically hurt inside.
After I stopped crying I thought that was the weirdest thing that ever happened. I walked out of the tanning salon and stood outside and everything seemed so beautiful, the tree's, the birds, even the air seemed pleasant. Now I was really wondering what was going on.
I pondered all of this as I drove to work that day. I brought my Bible to work and was thinking what am I doing, I want to take my Bible to work so I can read it. As soon as I got to work I started reading my Bible. I couldn't believe what I was reading!! It all was so wonderful. It felt so good to just read my Bible. My client showed up and as I was training them the only thing I could think about was getting back to my Bible. I read all night and slept about 2 hours and was reading again.
I had sinful things in my apartment and I rounded everything evil up and threw it in the garbage. It was weird I was thinking but it felt good so I left it all in the garbage. I called my girlfriend to break it up and she thought I had another girl, I said no, I just think this is wrong we shouldn't be sleeping together. She didn't understand so I told her I was a Christian now and she still thought I had another girlfriend. She said "Im glad your a Christian, so am I" I thought to myself, "I have a strong conviction that sleeping together is wrong and she thought it was okay" I wondered how she could think that. Anyway we broke up.
I kept reading my bible and repenting, there was so much to repent of and I had lived a very sinful life. I was a thief for some part of my life and all the people I stole from kept coming to mind. I owed so much money. I was instantly in debt about $80,000. As I could I paid them back. As of 7-18-2016 I still owe about $25,000 but it sure is a joy to be paying them back.
The first week of being saved a car just about ran me over, they hit me but I wasn't hurt at all. The guy in the car felt so bad. I just looked at him and said "God bless you and have a great day, I am okay" smiled at him and moved on. Now I was really wondering what was going on because I normally would have cussed him out left and right and instead of cussing I blessed him. That was so weird. But again it felt good. I learned to do good by what my conscience told me was good and that it felt good. I got hooked on this feeling good by doing good and did it more often.
About two weeks after being saved I thought of Bob. I immediately prayed for him, something like "Lord help him.." then I stopped praying and said out loud "What am I doing?" I'm praying for a man that I hated my whole life, but it feels good and right, so I did it again. I stopped again midway in the prayer and started pacing around. I was trying to make sense of what was going on and couldn't figure it out. But again it made me happy to pray for him so I did. Bob would often come to mind when I went to the bathroom and each time I would pray for Him. The more I did this the less weird it got. And the greater my love grew for him.
I started memorizing large portions of scripture and this was wonderful because it felt like the words were cleaning my mind and as Proverbs 2:10 "For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul." I wanted more and more of this pleasantness. So I memorized even more and the joy got more and more.
Then this life changing advice came:
A friend from church told me to find a book of the Bible and really understand it. Read through the Bible and pick one and read it over and over and study it and really get it. So I started in Genesis and read through. When I got to Proverbs I really liked it so I thought that would be the book. I started by memorizing all of Proverbs chapter 3. After that I thought maybe there is a better book than Proverbs. So I read on. Then I came to Song of Solomon. I read it with quite some confusion. It wasn't as good as the other books, I didn't know why. So I bought a commentary on it. George Burrowes commentary on the Song of Solomon.
In the commentary I found that George and other saw the book as illustrating God's love to the Church. And not only illustrating it but displaying the Love of Christ better than any other book. This caught my attention big time, because I was having a burning desire for a closer relationship with God and desperately learning about His Love so that I could Love God. You see I had hated Him for so long that God used that old hard heart to spur me on in loving Him. I so much did not want to hate God anymore that I was on fire to learn to Love Him as much and as fast as possible. So here was a book that would help me do that. So I landed on the Song of Solomon. I committed to learning as much of this book as possible.
I memorized the first chapter and would repeat it often throughout the day. I didn't know much of what I was repeating but it sure made me happier and on fire for God. I grew so fast repeating the first chapter over and over again all day, like a dozen times a day at least. It felt so good and I never found any other book that caused me to weep so much. I would often weep everyday just reading it. I was to immature to know what was going on. Even though it hurt to weep so much, I felt like my heart was being cleansed from the filth that was in it by repeating it over and over again so I did. As I read the commentary I understood more and more. What God was doing in me through the Song was greater and faster than any other portion of Scripture so I tended to stay there often. I was so excited about God that I thought it funny that other's in church weren't the same way. Some where happy but it seemed most of them didn't seem to care much about God. They would talk about work, football the weather. The only thing I wanted to talk about was Jesus and God and how can I grow closer to Him.
About this time there was a mission trip to Ireland.
I started to have convictions that I should try to find Bob and witness to him. I kept praying for him but how could he be saved if he hadn't heard the Gospel that has power unto salvation. So I asked family if they had any information. Like me before, my family hated him and thought he deserved hell. After some time I got his name but no location or phone number. Either they didn't know where he was or didn't want to tell me. I prayed some more and then started to get stronger convictions to do something about finding Bob.
So I went on the internet and typed in "his name and child molestation sex offender court" thinking that some court record would have some info leading to where I may find him" I even talked to a private eye and he couldn't help. So I googled some key words and spent hours each day looking through each page. I believed it was God's will for me to witness to Bob. I wanted him to be saved. Really bad. So much so that I thought God would save Bob if I were to witness to him. So I didn't stop searching for him. I kept my computer on each day and went page by page. It took two years to go through about 15,000 pages but I found someone who matched his name in a prison for molesting his grandchildren. I wrote the prison and he wrote back. All kinds of emotions went through my body when I saw his letter from the jail. I didn't open it right away but two hours later God gave me enough courage to face my fears again and I opened the letter. He admitted to being the one who molested me. We wrote back and forth I told him I was angry before but now I was saved and that I loved him and believed God wanted me to talk to him. He read my letters over and over again. I shared the gospel in each one.
I got mad at Bob 2x. Once he said that he love me. I got really angry with him. He didn't love me. That night it was hard to love Bob, I had to call a friend to pray for me to repent, after he prayed I felt greater love for Bob. Then I wrote him back saying "I'm sorry but you can't say that you loved me. You did not love me you lusted after me." He admitted he didn't love as he should have and admitted that it was lust and sinful. Finally some conviction. Yet I only thought he was saying that because I was being nice to him. All his family had left him and he said I was the only "friend" he had.
Wether or not it was true Bob said that he had cancer in his arm and that the help the prison gives was not enough and if he had money he could see a different doctor and get help. I sent him some money and since I was in jail before I knew what it was like to be in there without money, so I sent him money.
About 4-5 months in the economy went down, it was 2008. Work was hard. I still sent him money and I had to work harder. This was a really good lesson for me because I had to "work hard for the benefit of someone who did not deserve it." This was one of the greatest blessing ever because I realized with great certainty that Jesus was in me. This is what Jesus did. Jesus worked his whole life for me and I didn't deserve it!! Christ was in me! This was one of the best feelings ever and it put me in worship for months.
Then a mission trip to Croatia.
Each time I had to leave my business and amazing as it is I was completely okay each time. I am a self employed personal trainer and it is normally absurd to just leave and start over, but each time I had enough work within 2 weeks of coming back. This is a flat out miracle. I trusted God to provide and he did. How many people can start up a business in 2 weeks. Only with the help of God. God was teaching me early on in my walk that as long as I did what He wanted me to do then I had nothing to worry about.
About 3 years saved now.
I Taught the 4 year old's at church Sunday morning for 10 years.
Left my business 2x for mission trips and God miraculously provided when I came back.
I taught 5 x a week plus held a job.
Sunday morning to the kids.
Sunday night with the 5th graders
Friday afternoons at Good News Clubs. Sponsored by Child Evangelism Fellowship.
Friday Nights with the Kids teaching through Pilgrims Progress, I did this 2x
Teaching Monday afternoons at a nursing home. I taught through the Song of Songs once then John, then Romans then back to the Song again! I love the Song of Songs.
I grew up hating God for what happened to me, and now I love Him because He first loved me. My passion is for children to grow up loving God and not hating Him.
My other passion which has become ever greater is to help others see the Love of Christ to His Church in the Song of Songs!!
I would love to help you, just let me know and I will lead you and pray for you.
God demonstrates His love to us in sending His one and only Son to suffer in our place, taking our sins upon Himself so that whoever believes they get to heaven because of what He did for us will not perish but have everlasting life.