Bible Reading: The Song of Solomon 4:1-16
“Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Harmon, from the lions dens, from the mountains of the leopards” – Song of Solomon 4:8 (KJV).
This call is typical of the open invitation that Christ gives to all with his hands stretched to pardon and receive as many as will respond, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” – Matthew 11: 28 (KJV).
This symbolizes God’s call to Israel from the worship of Baal and their whoredom to a loving covenant relationship and walk with him. God called through prophet Isaiah, “come now and let us reason together saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” – Isaiah 1:18 (KJV). As the call goes to the Shulamite woman, signifying Israel as a people, so the call applies to the Gentile world today. The call to follow Jesus is an urgent call to all sinners. True rest can only be found in Christ. He calls us from the various ways we have wandered from him to return to him so he can return to us in response. “And Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the father, but by me” – John 14:6 (KJV). We tend to go our own way and ignore God’s appeal to go with him. The scriptures warn, “there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” – Proverbs 16:25(KJV). Have you found the true and right way? Are you on the path to life or the path that leads to death?
PRAYER: Lord, help me to always follow you.
Rev. Vincent Diolu