The Kisses of His Word (Songs 1:2)

Well it is weekend again and a time for another meditation, but I realized that I did not post at all this week for my Matthew study. Part of me thinks I bit off much more than I could chew with trying to post such a great task for my first 'series' in the wordcasting world. So I stand at a crossroads. Road #1... chalk it up to foolishness and scrap the study on Matthew as a whole, undoubtedly posting on it from time to time. Road #2... seek to push through, feeling like this is just something that I could not stick to, or have the faithfulness for. Still not sure what road I will choose. In my heart I feel like I am reading a Robert Frost poem. Which here would be the road less traveled? I know that I am putting way too much weight on this all, but it is just funny to me.

Anyway...

I was meditating on Song of Solomon 1:2 this morning, asking the Father to let the Son come and awaken my heart with the power of His word. I was asking for the tokens of His affections to pierce my heart and speak identity and truth into my heart, causing what is dull and blind in my heart to be awakened and become passionate in the experience of His tender affections.

However I started to think of the audacity of this question, or rather we might use the language of the NT and say 'confidence' or 'boldness', in coming to the Father and asking such a question. There is something in our hearts that must stand confident before the Holiest One, knowing that we are fully accepted and delighted in, in order that we would ask Him to draw near to our hearts and cause our hearts to experience His affections.

What would it take for us to feel such acceptance. My mind immediately went to Paul's beautiful exposition of God's eternal purpose for the saints in Christ found in Ephesians 1:3-14. There is absolutely nothing that we can bring in our own account that causes us to have the full acceptance of the Beloved's eye. The only way that we can approach Him to ask for His nearness is that He ultimately bridge the gap and mark us accepted by His rich and tender grace. We can only approach according to the multitude of His mercy, not by the works of our hands, not by our righteous deeds, not by anything that we have to offer, but by His full acceptance of us in the Beloved.

Yet, it is in this place we can come to Him and, fully confident in our position and acceptance, hold the ear and heart of the Beloved and ask Him to draw near to us that our hearts might be awakened to everything which we have been created for (i.e., the experience of God's divine love upon every part of our being).

Then we can draw near, full of faith, full of confidence, approaching the throne of grace with confidence and asking that His nearness would be unto us our good.

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