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Rise up, north wind, and rise, south wind… Mon 4:16a
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We observe the Bride, and we may even identify with her already, perhaps her experiences are yours. I hope that her experiences will motivate you to look deeper not only into yourself and your needs, but also into the Lord and His expectations towards you. I also believe that you will begin to see more and more those whom the Lord also loves, although they are still far away, but recognizing your calling you will understand that the Lord has endowed you with everything to be a wife to Him and a mother to many.
In his latest song, Michał Szpak asks the following questions: Tell me black or white. What color is your life? Try to ask your heart. Who you really are?
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Today, God’s hurricane that blows through God’s garden to make the balsamic scent spread for changes. The wind from the north is a cold, gusty and strong wind that tugs everything, meets the gentle and warm wind from the south. From such a meeting, a storm can arise, a storm that is extremely necessary for us to be able to answer Michał’s question – Who really am I? Am I just someone who says I am a Christian, but this is where the profession of faith ends, or maybe I am Catholic, Protestant and this is my value, or am I really the Bride of the Lord who is ready for any challenge?
I was asleep but my heart was awake , listen, my beloved knocks: open my beloved (…) I have already taken off my dress, so how am I to put it on again? I washed my feet, so how can I get them dirty again? Song 5,2-3. What is this attitude of love, makes excuses? Many Christians have experienced the cross, have gone through persecution through the world, the devil, and maybe even the modern Pharisees, but this persecution was apparently obvious because of belonging to the Lord. You can say, it’s normal, since they persecuted the Lord, and they will also be me, and the cross is my glory, life and strength. But this time we are dealing with something else. This time the cross is to become a spiritual disgrace. Through such an experience we can understand what it means to “fill the deficiencies of Christ’s sufferings” Col. 1:24
“ I opened it for my sweetheart, but my sweetheart is gone” Song 5,6a. The bride again sets out to seek the beloved one, pays for her carelessness and suffers harm. The guards are no longer gentle and willing to help, but they beat her up and hurt her. They even ripped off her coat. Now let us try to look at Joseph, the son of Jacob. His dreams, his visions were met with the great anger of his brothers, so that on the occasion of their tearing off the coat, they dipped the animal in the blood and sold it, telling his father that it was torn by the animal. Joseph did not know what was going on, after all, he had such enormous visions, prophecies for his life, it was so wonderful for him in his father’s house, why God? Why was he later falsely accused at Potiphar’s house and put in prison for something he did not do. Why God? Why, although very pious, Job had to lose everything, including his health, his children, and even his friends. Why God? Why the child of David and Bathsheba had to die for their sin. Why God?
These excruciating questions, perhaps you are asking yourself? Do you really have to accept the loneliness and shame of the cross. Perhaps everyone will turn their backs on you, because you will suddenly lose your position, property, health, and maybe even your mind for a while. God’s pruning shears works and cuts off the branches that prevent you on your way to a life satisfied with the works that God has given you, allowing God to provide Himself for His glory. Perhaps, in the course of experiencing the cross of shame, you will lose those who have followed you, because they cannot comprehend why your position has changed so dramatically, why you are no longer the wonderful one, that amazing Bride, but you sit in the ashes and do not know what to do next . Maybe we don’t want it, maybe we are talking to the Lord, but I want to be in glory, not in disgrace. Did we not really read that if we suffer with Him, we will reign with Him, 2 Tim. 2.12.
The Bride begins to understand that is life here on earth, as long as it is full of His presence in every situation . For her Bridegroom, she must become respectful, even fearful. Her search is of no use to her, but only disgraces her. “For they persecuted him whom you struck and caused pain to him whom you hurt.” Ps. 69:27, not understanding that “but the Lord is pleased to afflict him with suffering” Isa. 53.10a. The Bride already knows that her true place is where He is, that the true place is Kingdom life, is to reach beyond the veil. It is being in the most holy place. However, in order for this place to be her constant, she must unite herself with the Bridegroom, for better and for worse. He already understands the words in the book of Ruth – “ Do not insist on me to leave you and depart from you; for where will you go, I will go; where you will live and I will live; your people are my people, and your God is my God. Wherever you die, I will die there and I will be buried there. Let the Lord do to me whatever He will, and yet only death will separate me from you. ”Ruth. 1,16-17
The Bride is no longer bound by religion, customs, or traditions nor the opinions of others. She loves and knows where her place is. Just like a faithful, beloved wife will not leave her husband when they lose their property, when they become seriously ill, when they make a lot of mistakes, when they even fall into addiction, but will faithfully support, encourage, love and respect him. Her love is wise, her love is no longer possessive, but mature. “My beloved went down to his garden, among the beds of balm, to graze in the gardens and pick lilies. I belong to my beloved ”Song 6: 2-3a. Such a confession proves her maturity, that she does not have to constantly look for her beloved, as some wives of her husbands after payment, at least it used to be like that, but she is sure, she is calm about the love of her Bridegroom. She knows that even when she gets into unheard of trouble, He will not leave her, He will be with her, He will draw from the experiences that make her more mature. As we hear in the two-hearted dumka sung by Edyta Górniak and Mietek Szcześniak – “how can I ask other women, they will find my heart in you”. Thus the heart of the Bridegroom is in us and our hearts are in Him.
“ Who is this which shines like the morning light ”Song 6:10a is the Bride experienced in sufferings, sometimes even those where the face is hidden. A bride who did not run away, who did not give up, but went through the shame of the cross. She experienced at least some of the torments of the Passion of Christ. Now he can go on, as Joseph, who became the governor of Egypt, like Jacob from his meeting with an angel, walked on with a dislocated hip, like Job, whose experience resulted in the confession of “I only heard about you, but now my eye saw you “Job 42.5. Another child of the relationship that grew into David’s marriage to Bathsheba was Solomon, the wisest king on earth. And the child who died went to the most beautiful place we can imagine – to heaven. And David, speaking in Ps. 23.6c – “and I will live in the house of the Lord for long days” indicates that there will come a day when he will be again with his son in the house of the Father.
With the Bride we went through the hardships of the cross of shame, tomorrow the end of this love story. When it’s over, see the PNP and my text. For now, your in Mr. Kazik J.
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