Jesus has been calling me to a place of stillness, quietness and rest this month. He’s been speaking rest over all of us as a team, but has been underlying it for me with the need for stillness. Not stillness for the sake of it, or because it’s necessary for a mature Christian, but because He has something for me in that place of quiet.
Earlier this month I prophetically prayed to pursue and experience God as the Great Lover. I wanted to start thinking of Him as precious, valuable, something my heart sings and longs for, as a bride longs for her husband, longs to be unified together. I wanted that passion to come alive in my heart for Jesus.
Two weeks later as I began to piece together His answer for this prayer, I came across Song of Solomon. I read through it and though I didn’t understand too much of it in depth, I was enraptured with what I did grasp. I’m God’s bride-to-be, and He is so ridiculously crazy about us coming together.
I’ve read through it a few more times (and have decided it’s all the scripture I’m really going to read this month) and have been given a 24-part study on it from one of the squad leaders. Song of Solomon is capturing my heart, and is truly the beginning, just the beginning, of answering that cry of my heart to know Christ much more intimately. I’m thankful He has called me to settle down, to be still and quiet in His presence, because if I wasn’t, I’d never have heard His voice encouraging me to dive into His word in this way.
And for me, settling down and being still is hard…and the progress I’ve made is minimal…but it’s so good. So, so good. I’m only encouraged to pursue further quietness and stillness with Him. The little of His voice my spirit has heard only deepens my desire to hear more. To experience more.
Here is what my heart has been meditating on and finding joy in lately…
“My beloved speaks and says to me:
‘Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away,
for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come,
And the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are in blossom;
They give forth fragrance.
Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.’”
Song of Solomon 2:10-13
