“I am my beloved’s and His desire is for me.”
Song of Songs 7:10 (AMP)
The weight that the above statement holds when seen in light of Jesus’ journey to and death on the cross, is such as to wield the power to demolish every seed or stronghold of doubt that may tarry in our minds of our value to God or that we have reached the boundaries of his love towards us.
As we enter Holy week, we witness Jesus’ unrelenting pursuit unto death of our redemption and reconciliation to God. Once again we recognise how true this statement in Song of Songs is for each of us with no exception. The utterance of Jesus to His Father in the Garden of Gethsemane through sweated blood “not my will but yours be done” is recognition that it was the will of Father God to give His own son up in exchange for you and me as we wallowed in our own brokenness, hostility and wrong doing. Who are we, flawed as we are to move the heart of God to such an extent that he would go to the utmost length and breadth and at such cost to reconcile us to himself? Why indeed would we move God’s heart as the gift of Jesus our saviour suggests?
The simple answer is the nature of God’s character and heart:
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins…We love, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:10, 19 (NIV)
The Cross proclaims the eternal reality of the boundless generosity of God’s loving heart and puts beyond doubt the truth that He deems you and me loveable and valuable to him and his desire for us is such that we are worth the incredibly high price of His son. And when we are tempted to believe through our own actions, thoughts or circumstances that we have seemingly reached the boundaries of God’s love for us or our value to him, we only need look to Jesus, who settled the question forever of our value to God or His love for us.
For “He [Jesus] is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.” Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.
Hebrews 7:25-26 (NIV)
As this scripture shows, we discover in our hours of need where we are tempted to disqualify ourselves from God’s acceptance that the love of God is not only generous in meeting our need, it is boundless. There is never a scenario where we would turn to Jesus and he would turn us away. Therefore we do not need to hold back in our confidence in uttering the scriptural truth at all times and especially in every season, valley and night time experience: “I am my beloved’s and His desire is for me” (Song of Songs 7:10). This is and will always be true for you and me who are in Christ Jesus. We are beloved of the Lord now and forever. Hallelujah, Amen.
©2023, Benjamin Trowbridge
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