Devotionals
August 7,2007
Son 2:10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
My Beloved called me to come away with Him to His chamber, to that secret place, to come and learn of His love, to know Him Intimately.
He spoke clearly to me as I read this verse, and I heard calling me away all day and night. I kept hearing "Come away."
He then begin to reveal things to me, about His love, and how He jealously yearns for me to desire Him above all things. He began to show me how He wants more then for us to just talk about Him, and to pray to Him as if he was in some far distant place. He wanted me to know that He is right there with me, and when I worship Him in truth and in Spirit it draws Him to me.
But that He is nearer then our breath, He wants us to come to him, seek Him, and he will come to us.
Worship brings us to that place of intimacy with Him, he wants us to now Him in this way, he has always wanted us to enjoy Him in this manner, not just as an angry God of wrath that brings judgment to those who disobey and choose to worship idols
He will be this as well to those who spurn His love and refuse to obey Him.
When we choose to KNOW HIM and WORSHIP HIM, LOVE HIM, he reveals His fullness, His great love.
He is beautiful, and He loves us so much. he will woo us to himself with love, he will call us, "Come Away With Me", but when we ignore Him, as if we cannot be bothered He stands back and watches us yearning for us to seek him.
The more you know our beautiful God, and Love Him, the more you will desire to honor Him, to obey Him.
he wants us to burn for Him to have a passion for him to long for His very closeness, just as in bridal love.
Sin is really our lack of love for Him, because He has said if you love Me, obey my commandments and His commandments are not grievous.. so if we continue to sin in any way it shows that we do not really love Him with all of our heart, mind and strength.
The Lord has said, "If you seek Me, you shall find me. And ye shall seek me and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me".
He said, " I am as close as your heart".
When we talk about Him religiously as a far off God, that shows our lack of relationship with Him, it lacks intimacy.
He is our bridegroom, and He wants the same intimacy we have with our spouse or loved ones. Yet not one that fades with time, but one that is like our first love with our spouse. Like we had with the Lord in the beginning.
Our hearts burning with love for Him, longing to spend time with Him, our hearts were like a flame of fire.
But just as our hearts burned with love for our spouse, we found that over time, we were distracted with other things, we got busy, things became hum drum and we lose that longing, that flame that burned for one another. We may have learned that we never really knew this person before we were married, truly knew the heart. Sometimes love blinds one to truly knowing a person, but as time goes on if that relationship was not developed in intimacy that fire will burn out. And you do not want to listen to the other person, you shut your ears to what they are saying.
This happens because you didn't make this person your one true love, you didn't make this person your very best friend. You took your focus off that person and you drifted away.
This is exactly the way it often is with our bridegroom Jesus.
We can never be fully pleasing to our Lord, until we have true bridal love with Him, of course I am not talking about physical love but the love from the heart, that longing, that deep fire that burns for our loved one.
As long as we keep Him at a distance we will never be completely free of the stain of sin, he wants to burn off all of our shackles of sin.
Because it is our love for him with all of our hearts mind and strength that causes us to want to please Him, we want to continue to receive the great love He gives us when we are in the bridal chamber, we do not want to do anything to lose that. We would do nothing to hurt Him or bring shame to His name.
Everything we do for Him in service should be from this fiery love we have for Him. this is the place he wans us to be.
The Lord has said to love Him with all of our heart, and yet we often proclaim our love for him but it is only with our lips and not with the heart. Isa 29:13 And the Lord said, For as much as this people draw nigh unto me, and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught them;
This is how it is sometimes with those we love, after awhile it seems that they speak to us with words of love but their heart is far from us, it makes us feel as though they really do not love us, that they are really mouthing the words.
True love comes from the heart of hearts, it is a love that nothing can quench true love. For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.
Son 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned.
This is the kind of love we must have for the Lord, and what he longs for us to have.
We learn to love others through His love for us, as we give ourselves over to Him in love, He begins to show us how to love others, by loving them through us. we cannot do this until our heart is given over to Him in intimacy, when you are so smitten with Him you do not want to leave His Presence for even 5 minutes. You forget all about yourself in that time alone with Him, he is all there is for eternity. Endless love.
Your focus is on Him alone, this is how He wants us to live daily.
My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feedeth his flock among the lilies.
He is our beloved and He wants to teach us about love, and He wants us to KNOW HIM.
The children of Israel didn't want to hear God, they didn't want Him to come near, they were so afraid of Him, they asked Moses and other vessels to speak for Him, this is the same as it is today. the people do not to want to hear God for themselves but listen to their Pastor who may or may not have heard from God, or they listen to a prophet, or some other man of God rather then listen to hear what God has to say to them personally through the word or through the Spirit.
The Israelites feared God because of their sins, but they never realize how merciful and compassionate our beautiful God was and is.
They never learned how much they were loved. They are His beloved. We are His beloved.
What would happen in our own marriage, if we continued to reject our spouse, putting other things and people before our spouse?
Doing what we felt like doing, irregardless of them or their desires, doing what is right in our own eyes. Refusing to listen?
Would not your mate be angry when no matter what is done or said, no change occurs, would not that spouse maybe even talk about the "D" word? Our Lord is so long suffering and full of mercy but what is it going to take to truly have a covenant marriage? It will take abandoned unrequited love.
Commitment to one another, letting nothing interfere with that covenant marriage.
It is the same with the Lord he wants our full attention, he wants our commitment to him. He wants our love and our love alone. Not doubled minded.
Most of all he wants us to know His love, to Know Him as He truly is.
Yeshua, Christ Jesus came as His beloved Son and was an example to us of how we are to be with the Father. He came in the fullest expression of God's love in human form.
We are to live in continuous fellowship with the Lord, we are to become one with Him, as one loving others, being a vessel of healing and deliverance, through His perfect love, perfect faith and trust. Laying down ones life for God and others and picking up our cross
No matter where that takes us.
Yeshua spent the earliest part of the day in the mountain communing alone with the Father, and came down and went about His day as conduit of the Father's love. It begins in His chambers, he will meet you there.
"Come Away With Me Beloved"
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