Date: Friday July 20, 2012
Today's Chapters: Song of Solomon 5-8
Message Title: An Unbreakable Seal

Hello My Friend,

No greater love has anyone shown than Jesus Christ to give His life as a sacrifice for all mankind, Jesus died for everyone, past, present, and future. Why? Two reasons, one, to save all who believe in Him from the judgment we all deserve for sin, and two, to reconcile us with God. “He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” - John 3:33-36.

In the Song of Solomon, we have a wife speaking, not to her husband, but of him, and it is a sad song, she sings of the distress she was under after her husband walks away because she neglected him. “I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.” - Song of Solomon 5:2-6.

This is an illustration of a saved soul who neglects Christ after being saved, when we receive Christ as our Savior He cleanses us and removes all the filth of sin from our lives. Those who remain living sinful lives with no effort to remove the sin will seek Christ, but not be able to find Him. While Christ never leaves us He will withdraw Himself, step back and let us deal with the consequences of sin all on our own. It's not to see us suffer, it's to get us to repent. “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” - Revelation 3:19,20.

Experience makes the believer understand that only through God's grace they are saved, that they truly belong to Christ, and nothing can separate them from Him. It's sad that so many saved people will never understand just how much He loves them and wants the best for them. God's mercy and grace upon us is just amazing, but if we do not acknowledge it how can we ever expect to know His presence in our lives. “Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee. My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.” - Song of Solomon 6:1-3,9.

I was talking to someone the other day who just could not trust God anymore because of what happened in their life. Can I tell you, we cannot blame God for anything that happens to us, yes, He does have the power to intervene, but He will never intervene with mans free will. God also sees beyond what we see on the surface, we may never completely understand God's will, but we can trust that He knows what He is doing and will help us get through all of life's challenges. “Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.” - 2 Corinthians 4:14,15.

When a person gets saved, fireworks go off, it's as if a huge weight comes off our bodies. The more we get to know Christ, the more we realize He loves us and is ours forever. In fact, the closer we get to Him the more we learn what His desires are toward us, which is illustrated here by a wife realizing the love of her husband. “I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.” - Song of Solomon 7:10-13.

Christ is the vine, we are the branches, in order for our lives to flourish with an abundance of fruit we need to nourish our branches with the food it needs to grow by feeding the vine first. Any plant that produces ripe, edible, sweet fruit gets that way with a lot of pruning, weeding, and feeding it with the nutrients and water it needs. Our relationship with Christ is the same way, the more love we give to the vine the more nutrients we get to our branch, which makes us more fruitful. “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” - John 15:5-7.

It's sad to say, but so many people whither and die in their souls because they do not abide in the vine. Once you are saved, you are always saved, but it can feel like you are dead inside when all the circumstances just pile up. Honestly, we are going to suffer once in a while, just like any relationship, it takes work, but Jesus loves us unconditionally and patiently waits for us to come to Him for help. He will never force Himself upon anyone, He will guide us, but He will never interfere unless ask Him. His seal is upon us, He loves us, knows us, and He will never leave us nor we forsake us, but if we truly want to see things change in our lives we must grow in our relationship with Christ. “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” - 1 John 5:3,4,14,15.

Today's Prayer: Jesus, No matter how much we resist, no matter how many times we back away from You, You are right there, patiently waiting for us to come to You with all that we are going through. You want to comfort us, guide us, and give us hope through all the circumstances we face. You knock and knock, but we tend to neglect You and lose the sense of Your presence when we do not hear You. Lord, open our ears and hearts, help us to get past our circumstances and come to You, I know it is only by coming to You that I can have the true victory. Amen.

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