Friday, May 29, 2009;
11:55 PM
O draw me, o draw me away
Messiah today
In Your presence to stay
Song of Solomon BS @ Expo today... absolute awesomeness. It really took my breath away.
Song of Solomon is a really good book in the bible, it talks about the love between a courting man and a woman. Or like the deep love between Christ and the church. I must really blog about this, everything that Pastor Kong was preaching today seriously shot into my heart... it was exactly what I was going through. Okay lemme just delve right into it before I head off for bed.
Song of Solomon 1:2 - 2:7 talks about the Initial love (aka first love) between Solomon (depicted as Christ) and the Shulamite woman (depicted as a believer). The Shulamite woman isn't someone who was a babe in Christ, but someone who has been serving the Lord for a long time, and is feeling burnt out and tired out from it.
In Ecclesiastes, the book before Song of Solomon, King Solomon wrote about a life of wandering the believer had. How the believer (which is known as the Shulamite woman in the book Song of Solomon) has been toiling all day and realises that everything in the world was just vanity. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. She was in the wilderness, lost and without direction.
In Song of Solomon, she met King Solomon (Christ) who decided to court her. In verse 4 of the first chapter it says "Draw me away! We will run after you." After the slogging out in the fields and being lost in the wilderness, the Shulamite woman cries out to Solomon to draw her in. She's tired of wandering, and she knows that one experience with King Solomon could change her life forever.
In other words, it's like us believers who have been worn out serving the Lord endlessly and wandering around asking ourselves what we should do. Our spirit yearn to have that touch, that experience from the Lord that would change out life that is why we cry out to God to draw us to him.
Further down in verse 5, the Shulamite woman says "I am dark, but lovely... (v.6) 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 keeper of their vineyards, But my own vineyard I have not kept." The woman recognises that her sins in her were the source of her darkness even though she is beautiful on the outside. She tells Solomon not to look at her as she feels she's too sinful. The sentence that follows after that states clearly that her own life in not kept in proper, but she is taking heed of other people's lives.
This 2 verses really spoke to my heart as I remembered how crapped out my life has been for the past month. I was made keeper of other's vineyards, I had to take care of my cell group members and call them up regularly for a chat or to check up on their spiritual life. It took up so much of my time that I didn't kept my own vineyard, I didn't do my QT regularly and my whole spiritual life went down and burnt out. And because of that I was being shot down by certain leaders (v.6 my mother's sons were angry with me) and I ask myself why don't they just understand what I'm going through?
In verse 7 the Shulamite asks Solomon "Tell me, O you whom I love, Where you feed your flock, Where you make it rest at noon." She needs her rest, the Shulamite woman was tired, angry and abused because of the leadership above her that told her to take care of their own vineyards, thus instead of relying on second hand revelation from others (because her own spiritual life in down and out), she would rather experience the revelation herself at the place where "you feed your flock."
Solomon told her to (v.8) follow in the footsteps of the flock, and feed your little goats by the sherperds' tents. To follow those who had really and truely walked the path of revelation and annointing before. Thus he is telling her to BALANCE her life, not to swing to one extreme of burning out or the other extreme of relying on God without a cg, or going for services.
The verses from 1:9 - 2:7 talks about how Solomon compares her with the filly among Pharaoh's chariots (the horses were the best of the best, the strongest, the fastest, yet also docile and disciplined) and how her cheeks are lovely with ornaments (a girl in love blushes!) and her neck with chains of gold (neck = strength, as she returns to the Lord, the strength from the Lord is returned to her :) It also talks about how the glory of God will come upon her (v.11) and how she comes back to her first love.
At the end of it all, she comes back to her first love.
Everything is so insignificant in our eyes except the first love we had. It's like the love for God overwhelms every other love out. It's so huge, so big that it cannot be compared to anything else. So how do we return to the first love? :) Song of Solomon 1:4 says it all.
Draw me, o draw me away.
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I found out something really cool during the bible study in expo too! :D In Song of Solomon 1:3, the Shulamite woman talks about the fragrance of the ointment that Solomon has (or the attitudes that Christ have) and in the ointment there are actually 3 kinds of different ointments mixed together: Myrrh, Aloes and Cassia.
And... I checked up my name and this is what my name means:
Kezia \k(e)-zia\ is pronounced ke-ZYE-ah. It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is "cassia tree". Cassia is the generic name for a variety of trees and shrubs, one of which produces cinnamon that was used by the Chinese. Biblical: one of the three fair daughters of Job.
And you know what cassia means? It means royalty and in hebrew, it means to stoop down or to bend down = GREAT HUMILITY :D See, I told you I'm not that ego. I do have humility sometimes okay. Give me some credit la :D I love my name HAHA
And it's really great to make someone's day a pretty good one when you compliment him or her. So thanks
Zeke! He said I'm sweeter than a thousand cinnamons! :D You've made my day :)
Alright so I'm off and looking forward for tmr's POS performance at expo~ JIAYOU MAG! Y(^^)Y don't fall off the stage!
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xoxo, k.
