In the Song of Solomon, Solomon's lover calls him "My Beloved" and he calls her "My Love". It is a beautiful story of intimacy that teaches us that we must let go of yesterday to fully enjoy tomorrow!!!
"The mandrakes give a smell, and at our GATES are all manner of pleasant FRUITS, new and old, which I have LAID UP for thee, O my beloved."
(Song of Solomon 7:13)
In this verse there is an aroma of pleasant fruits at "our gates". Gates are openings or portals into something new. If you will notice, the fruit is "new and old", we cannot have the new without the old!! The old fruit refers to our past which, regardless of what it is, it has shaped us into whatever we are today. In real time, we are what we are but there is new fruit to be produced by us!! We will enter the gate of the future, a new portal in time tonight at midnight!! At Midnight you are 6 hours from daylight behind you and 6 hours from daylight ahead of you!! Midnight is a very unique Time of Day!!! It's that split second of time where yesterday meets tomorrow, the past meets the future!!! In that split second we find TODAY which is unique because every new day is today, with yesterday behind us and tomorrow ahead of us!! We do not live in yesterday or tomorrow, we only have today, literally speaking.....
We must run to meet tomorrow with hope and expectation. At this point in Solomon's relationship with his "Love", she hasn't understood every experience but she says, with confidence;
"I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me."
(SS 7:10).
She continues her statement of hope and confidence by saying, "Come, my beloved, LET US go forth into the field; LET US lodge in the villages. LET US get up early to the vineyards; LET US see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves."(SS 7:11-12).
She is now excited about the new experiences ahead of her. It is a new day so let's run to meet it with our hearts filled with love and excitement!! She was so in love with Solomon that she was consumed with desperation when not in His presence. If you read the book in its entirety, you will notice that they move from one experience to another. At first she hesitates to move ahead because she is so attached to yesterday's intimacy that she doesn't want to move on, she wants to stay in the moment. As their relationship progresses she realizes that He is more important than an experience because experiences change, so enjoy them but don't get attached. Religions are built by people trying to
re-play an old experience that was wonderful but in the past. Old fruit will spoil if not consumed and our consumption of the old brings forth the new fruit that we must experience to stay fresh!! You see, the old fruit was once the new fruit and the new will soon be the old! When He moves, move with Him! Experiences are bound by time which is restricted to moments but He has no boundaries nor restrictions. We must enter each new day in the freedom of Christ, free from sin and regret, free to follow His vision for our lives. We must not allow the disapproval of others to hold us captive in some time frame, a mental snap shot of us from ten years ago or even yesterday. Please don't allow someone else's image of you to define or identify who you are at present and especially not in your future. So lay your sin and regret at the Cross of Jesus and run into the new year filled with His resurrection power without hesitation!!!! God is good so the New Year with be good!!!! Remember the old but experience the new!!!
"Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?"(Isaiah 43:19)
I Believe,
Scott L. Boatner
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