Oh, you are beautiful, my love! Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves. (Song of Songs 2:15)
The first group of verses describe how we are like strong and stubborn horse in Pharoah's chariots. We run every where and do things according to our own abilities. We want to serve the Lord as a horse, but He doesn't want a horse. He takes us like a bar of gold and beats us and cut us into strings of gold, to braid us into plaits! He wants us to realize through all this beating and cutting that we need to trust him. He teaches us that our running and looking everywhere as a horse is not his desire. He allows us to make mistakes, sometimes big ones, too, so that he can gain us. We would realize that we can't make it without Him, and fly to Him like a dove seeking shelter. Then, after many of those experences, we would realize our fragility watch Him with the eyes of a dove, looking only at Him. That when he says, "Oh, you are beautiful, my love! Oh you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves." Through that process, however, there are a lot of trials and mistakes. The only thing we can do during those times is is fly to Him, like a dove.
Sometimes the best way to speak your love for the Lord to others is through the psalms and hymns, especially with the other saints. Sing with your heart to the Lord!
In World History class we read a story of a strange tribe of people called the Nacirema. They were very strange people who worshiped at shrines dedicated to the mouth every day and thought that they couldn't live without cleansing their mouths with magical potions. They seemed to be a babaric, far away civilization, but what the story was really talking about was Americans. The shrines are actually the medicine cabinets in the bathrooms where we all brush our teeth, because if you have bad teeth or bad breath, most people in the US would think that you are very strange. The obsession with the mouth could actually become like an idol as described in the story.
I thought that story showed us that without the Lord we are all unknowingly worshipping some idol, even if we don't see it. When the Lord came however, He pulled us out of our own little bubble and showed us what we really looked like. That caused us to turn to Him from those idols and serve Him, the living and true God. Praise the Lord for showing us what we are really like and turning us to Him!
I started school this week, and because I was new to the school, I got lost many times and forgot a lot of things. Normally, I would have been very distressed about all that had happened, but somehow even through everything I still feel at peace inside. Praise the Lord for being with me all through the week. If the Lord is with us, who indeed can be against us?