Today I am out with Spring at a Six Flags-esque amusement park called Happy Valley or Happy Kingdom. (They have two names for the park.) In between rides, while waiting in line, and while waiting out the afternoon rain shower, I read SOS Chapters 5 and 6. Sorry that this has taken a while to post. I have also been experiencing many computer problems and strange problems posting things on my blog too.
Here are my first insights. When the Shulamite's Beloved came she was not ready. She offered excuses as to why she could not get up to open the door, and the Beloved left. When she did get up, he couldn't be found. Then, she was beat up by the world when she went looking for him. This teaches me that we must be ready for Papa and depend on His protection as the world is really and truly ugly.
I like how when her friends ask her to describe her lover that the Shulamite is ready. We too need to know who the Beloved is and always be ready to tell others about him. She tells her friends that her Beloved has been with her and describes him in detail. Can we say that we have been with him and describe him so well?
Her Beloved returns and is enraptured by her beauty. It is He alone that has made her beautiful. Now even his friends desire to look upon her beauty!
I think that these chapters are really just a challenge for us to make ready our lives and hearts for the Beloved. Will we be ready to offer no excuses when Jesus calls to us? Will we quickly open the door of our hearts to Him so that he can protect us from the world with His love and make us beautiful both to him and others?
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