There Will I Give You My Love

There's a place we must go daily to meet the Lord.

Regardless to how we feel or what failures may have overwhelmed us.

Let us go out early to the vineyards and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love. (Song of Solomon 7:12, NLT).

Do you feel exhausted? Tired from the pressures of everyday living. Your feet touch the floor in the morning to experience a horrible weight pressing down on your shoulders.

Have you failed by saying things you shouldn't speak? Words that were sharp or acidic because you are frustrated and angry.

Or do you feel that no matter what efforts you make to serve the Lord, the rewards seem fewer and risks too great? Friends disconnect and disappear. Your co-workers stop giving you invites for those after hour gatherings. You feel shunned and isolated.

This is the time you say to Christ, "Let's go to the secret place and there I will give You my love."

That secret place is the vineyard and the Lord is the Vigneron. He plants, cultivates and prunes the fruit in our lives. Like grapes that are crushed to flow with juice into an intoxicating drink; so too does the Lord apply a gentle pressure.

For we are squeezed in all things, but we are not strangled; we are harassed, but we are not condemned. (2 Corinthians 4:8, Aramaic Bible in Plain English).

As a result, we became intoxicated by His presence.

There in that place we find the truest joy and bliss. There in that place we take off our foolish self made armour and thin veneer of excuses for preservation. We stand completely unashamed in His presence just as we are and what we are not.

Beloved, He longs for the prayer of faith that seizes His hand that pulls and tugs Him to a place already appointed for you and me.

Whisper in the day and night to Him, "Come Lord, there I will give You all my love!"