The One we Love

I wondered into a conversation with a friend last night. I don't even recall how it came about, but it really reminded me of something about Jesus. So much I think about Jesus in relation to all those who don't believe. It isn't that I don't think about how much I need him, I just more often think like this, "Wow, if we could understand who Jesus is, and live it out, how could the world resist?"

That seems to be the question I always come to. I don't think that is a bad question. Because I have yet to truly find someone who has figured Him (Jesus) out. And yet maybe that to is wrong to say. I have yet to figure out my brother, my father and even my mother (whom I'd say I've gotten to know the most in my life, yet I still am surprised by her so much in life.) We will never figure God out.

Song of Solomon

Beloved

2 I slept but my heart was awake.
Listen! My lover is knocking:
"Open to me, my sister, my darling,
my dove, my flawless one.
My head is drenched with dew,
my hair with the dampness of the night."

3 I have taken off my robe—
must I put it on again?
I have washed my feet—
must I soil them again?

4 My lover thrust his hand through the latch-opening;
my heart began to pound for him.

5 I arose to open for my lover,
and my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with flowing myrrh,
on the handles of the lock.

6 I opened for my lover,
but my lover had left; he was gone.
My heart sank at his departure.
I looked for him but did not find him.
I called him but he did not answer.

7 The watchmen found me
as they made their rounds in the city.
They beat me, they bruised me;
they took away my cloak,
those watchmen of the walls!

8 O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you—
if you find my lover,
what will you tell him?
Tell him I am faint with love.

Friends

9 How is your beloved better than others,
most beautiful of women?
How is your beloved better than others,
that you charge us so?

If we live our lives, awakening from slumbers, allowing our heart to be awakened by our Lord, and rising to the voice of our Love, if we dare to throw off the securities, if we have the courage to get dirty, the world will ask who it is we love so much, who could be worth our very lives. The world will want to know, and the best thing of it all is, they will know, if you arise off your bed at his voice, you will be doing the work of the Father, and all the world will see. "Put your lamp on lamp stand so that all may have the light." All it means is, live it, live it like you believe it, and get to know it so you know what you believe.

Preaching to himself...
-Mike