Devotion 759

"It pleased God to bruise Him"

Reference: Song Of Solomon Chapter 7

God the Father has found restoration for the broken covenant with man. It pleased God to be connected back to His lost children. This is the love of God.

The broken covenant was cut in blood. The new covenant must be cut in blood. It has to be blood undefiled. This is the only way for God to have a new bloodline for the whole world. What it must feel like, that everything hinged upon Jesus Christ going to the cross to shed his blood to cut this new covenant . Without that, the whole world is lost. There is no answer to the curse that Adam had bestowed upon creation. This is what makes the Cross of Christ the most important thing in the world. This is why we date everything BC or before Christ and AD or after the death of Christ. It is a pivotal moment in history. Everything revolves around that. Everything: man, God, life, everything revolves around what Jesus Christ did on the cross by shedding his blood.

The love of God that brought salvation to man.

Let's read.:

Song of Solomon 7:1-5 "How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. [2] Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies. [3] Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. [4] Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath–rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. [5] Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries."

Through love, God doesn't see man as a servant. He sees you as a son, as a child, as a daughter. God sees man in His image, fallen. If only man would believe he can be restored to his original creation. No matter how far the individual may have fallen, if only they will believe, they will be restored back into the image of God.

We continue our reading:

Song of Solomon 7:6-10. "How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! [7] This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. [8] I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; [9] And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. [10] I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me."

God seeks oneness with his children:
- one in love
- one in thought.The mind of Christ.
- one in light. The light of the world.
- one in word
- one in spirit

 We continue our reading:

Song of Solomon 7:11-13 "Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. [12] Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. [13] The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved."

The table is set. The Lamb has been slain. All man has to do is to accept what God has offered: His love on the old rugged cross. For God so loved the world that He gave His blood for anyone who would accept it. They would not perish in the blood of fallen Adam but have everlasting life in the blood of the second Adam.

Accept God's free love, BELIEVE and confess Christ, the second Adam, as we reveal him from the first Adam. The love of God, which will not stop Its pursuit of man, in Christ!