Song of Solomon 6:10 “Who is she that looketh forth as the morning? Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?”
What is set forth in this verse is our life in the Lord Jesus, and just how it should be seen. The Holy Spirit should be able to use us to create a hunger in the hearts of others for God, and His workings in a soul that has continued to go on with Him. This is not by what we do….but by what we are.
Mature believers are:
“She that looketh forth as the morning”
This believer has “come to the light”….and there are no more “shadows” between her and her Lord.
The believer has come to live the life of nothing between. A constant maintaining of a life of fellowship with Christ.
We are no longer shut up, trying to examine ourselves, but are open to and receptive to Him at all times.
(And He has this for each believer….constant fellowship….even for us in Laodicea Rev. 3:20)
Revelation 21:7 “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son.”
This overcoming deals with the everyday things of our everyday lives. It is in these things that we overcome….and “look forth as the morning”.
We walk in the light, seeing things clearly….as they really are.
The world often puts on a “show” for us….but this believer has come to see things for just what they are, and how they are, and also, just what they mean for our relationship with our Lord.
By this, we bring light to others.
The single most important thing is…”Lord, what would you have me to do?
For with God, nothing shall be impossible.
I can do nothing myself. Yet I can do all things through Christ Who strengthenth me.
We must keep in mind, in our everyday things…..The God before Whom I stand. He is Able…and I am His servant, and simply do, and stand where He has put me.
By this, we become as a morning light to those around us.
“Fair as the moon”
The moon reflects the light of the Sun, but it is a soft, gentle, light shining in the darkness. So we should realize that we are to reflect Christ…..He is our everything in these dark days….
….and when we do, He should be seen through us.
“Clear as the Sun”
This is absence of gloom.
(My husband had a message once on “Miserable Christians”. They were born again, yet had not left the trappings of the world, and therefore were torn between two masters.
Real joy is the Presence of God in my life. The more we know His presence by fellowship, the more joyful we are.
1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.”
And we know that this cleansing is a present blessing, one which should be constantly sought.)
If we are to dispel gloom…..for the Joy of the Lord is our strength….it is in His Presence…constantly.
Psalm 16:11 “Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in Thy Presence is fullness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.”
Joyful Christians manifest Jesus wherever they go.
(just a reminder: joy is not in circumstances. Joy is in the Lord. Circumstances may be “bad”…but our real joy is in the Lord.)
“Terrible as a army with banners”.
This deals with the enemy that opposes us.
Such an army….displaying all their banners….was a Victorious army. (otherwise they would be rolled up and hidden)
He is Victor in the field….and we should be identified with Him.
We must yield to the Holy Spirit and then exercise our wills for Him. There is a spiritual force in the will….and that force must be conquered and then led of the Holy Spirit. (Ro. 8:14)
From our position in Christ’s Victory, we should show forth a Victorious Christ. And as He has had the victory over us, we should radiate Him to a lost and dying world.
Not that we go forth to conqueror…but that we magnify and honor in love the One who has conquered us.
And it is in our personal lives that this will be done. It is not super-saints that God makes….but just willing, love-slaves of Christ.
It is in our personal set of circumstances….as He is Lord of them, first because He rules all things….but also because we have given them over to Him to do as He pleases….we will soon see the Victory through them.
Not that He necessarily changes our circumstances. But that…He changes us through our circumstances.
For He looks to an end result.
And that end result is that we might live victoriously as we become HIs Will….in our own little corner of the world.
We are a morning of light to others….we are reflecting the light of Christ in this world’s darkness….we are not miserable, but joyful, in the Lord…..and we are becoming victorious in the faith, showing forth our Christ Jesus as Victor.
Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
Let us go on with Christ, for that is what a mature believer does…..that is, in fact what makes a mature believer. Not staying the same….but going on with the Lord.
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