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Songs of Solomon 1 – He is mine & I am His

Aug3

Good evening y’all. Happy Monday 🙂

Today we’ll begin our study of the book of Songs of Solomon. Excited much about this book 🙂

Be blessed 🙂

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In today’s chapter, verse 4 – 6 stood out for me. I approached the verses from the angle of being the Shulammite woman and God being the King. I am His bride and He my bridegroom.

“Draw me away! We will run after you.The king has brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will remember your love more than wine.Rightly do they love you” (V4 NKJV).

In this verse, you see the Shulammite woman is eager to be with her lover. She is ready to steal away with him. She even compares his love to wine, though his love tastes better than wine 🙂 .
In the same way God is inviting us to come closer; to get to know Him. He is inviting us to His palace to reign with Him. His love for us is so amazing and unconditional. It’s pure and sweet 🙂

Jeremiah 31: 3 says :
“For long ago the Lord had said to Israel: I have loved you, O my people, with an everlasting love; with loving-kindness I have drawn you to me”  (TLB).

The Message version even better 😉 . It says:
“God told them, “I’ve never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love!” ( God is saying that to you and me today 🙂 )

“I am dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, Like the tents of Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon. Do not look upon me, because I am dark, Because the sun has tanned me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; They made me the keeper of the vineyards, But my own vineyard I have not kept” (V 5- 6 NKJV).

Here you see the woman is self conscious. She’s not sure if she’s beautiful enough for the king. Oh, how I can relate with the Shulammite woman. I know what it is like to feel like I’m not good enough. For a very long time, I believed those lies from the enemy telling me I’m not beautiful enough; “no one cares for you; you are too fat” ; “your nose is too big”; “your voice is too husky”. Not only did those lies affect my relationship with family and friends, it also affected my relationship with God. I struggled to understand how God could love me. I honestly believe I wasn’t worthy of love. I was a christian, went to church regularly, even sang in the choir, but I just didn’t believe in my heart that God truly loved me. I got my liberation the day God by His grace allowed me a glimpse of Psalm 139. It was what you would call a light bulb moment. It just hit home. God loves me inspite of what I look like or the things I have done or will do. Truth is, He has predetermined to love me. Nothing that I am now or ever will be, is a surprise to Him.

Psalms 139: 1- 18 sums it up well….

“1 O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. 2 You know when I sit or stand. When far away you know my every thought. 3 You chart the path ahead of me and tell me where to stop and rest. Every moment you know where I am. 4 You know what I am going to say before I even say it. 5 You both precede and follow me and place your hand of blessing on my head.
6 This is too glorious, too wonderful to believe! 7 I can never be lost to your Spirit! I can never get away from my God! 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the place of the dead, you are there. 9 If I ride the morning winds to the farthest oceans, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your strength will support me. 11 If I try to hide in the darkness, the night becomes light around me. 12 For even darkness cannot hide from God; to you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are both alike to you.
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit them together in my mother’s womb. 14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! It is amazing to think about. Your workmanship is marvelous—and how well I know it. 15 You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion! 16 You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!
17-18 How precious it is, Lord, to realize that you are thinking about me constantly! I can’t even count how many times a day your thoughts turn toward me.[a] And when I waken in the morning, you are still thinking of me!” (TLB).

I pray the reality of God’s love will wash over us and quiet every doubt or fear in our hearts. In Jesus Name. Amen

Thanks for joining today. Pls feel free to share your thoughts on the chapter.

Have a blessed evening 🙂

***With God all things are possible***

Proverbs 31: Part 4&5 Charm is deceptive. ..

Jul31

Good evening y’all. Today we are studying proverbs 31: 23 – 31.

Be blessed 🙂

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I’m focusing on verse 25 and 30 today.

Verse 25
“She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future” (NLT).

Here is a woman who is strong and has learnt to not worry about the future but rather enjoy each day as it comes. I ask why is she laughing at the future? Perhaps it’s because she knows that God is able to provide for the future and she doesn’t need to fret about it.

I found the commentary below regards this verse.

“What does that word “dignity” mean? It refers to the fact that she is elevated above common things. She is elevated about trivial things. Her life is not all about what doesn’t matter. She has true class, true virtue. She has godly character. She is spiritually strong and she has elevated herself to the nobler issues. And she has the power of true character and its expressed in the fact that she smiles at the future. She has no fear. Why? Because she knows her life is right with God and that secures His blessing in the future.
You shouldn’t fear the future. You shouldn’t worry about the future. If your life is right with God the promise of God is unfolding blessing, isn’t it? She knows in whom she trusts. She knows her life is right. She is faithful. She is pure. And therefore she can delight in what is ahead. Those who fear the future are those who experience guilt in the present. If you’re overburdened by the weight of your own sin and unfaithfulness, you have every reason to fear the future because the Bible promises chastening. This woman, because of the virtue of her life, can smile at the future and know the promise of God for blessing” (John MacArthur, Proverbs 31, http://www.gty.org.uk/resources/sermons/80-168/the-proverbs-31-woman).

Verse 30
“Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the lord will be greatly praised” (NLT).

This is very relevant especially for me as a single woman. Society tells it’s all about the physical packaging but God says it’s all about the inward packaging.

I remember one experience I had about packaging. I went to the shops to get some strawberries. They looked so sumptuous; well packaged and all. I bought a pack and only for me to tuck into it and realise it was rotten with maggots inside. Imagine my disgust at this. I couldn’t believe it because it looked fresh and good in the package, plus it was still within the use by date. I returned it to the shop and they refunded me and compensated me for my distress. Needless to say, that put me off strawberries for a long while. Its the same with us. You can package yourself well with all the makeup; have all the curves in the right places; and even attempt plastic surgery to fix the bits you think are not perfect but the real question is when people look deeper what would they find?

No amount of plastic surgery or make up can change what is on the inside of you. Only God can change you from the inside out. That’s why we are told a woman who fears God is to be praised.

1Peter 3:3-5 says it well –

“Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. This is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They put their trust in God and accepted the authority of their husbands” (NLT).

I pray the Holy spirit will help us be the woman described in Proverbs 31. Amen

Thanks for joining today. Pls feel free to share your thoughts on chapter.

Next week we start our study on songs of Solomon. I’m excited 🙂

Have a blessed weekend 🙂

***With God all things are possible***