Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Meeting In The Garden!



‘Meeting In The Garden.’
(Christ meets the Church there)
Song of Solomon 4:16.
a)     The garden was a place where the Wind of the Holy Spirit blew.
b)    The garden was a place where the Coming of Jesus was remembered. (The spices)
c)     The garden was a place that belonged to the Lord. (He was the One Who created the first garden)
d)    The garden was full of choice fruit. (Especially the fruit of the Holy Spirit and the good fruit that comes from the lives of True Believers)
(This QT has me wanting to be at the Meeting In The Garden)
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‘It Piles Up When We Are Down.’
1 Kings 19:4.
a)     Elijah went by himself a day’s journey into the desert. (It is the kind of action we take when we are down)
b)    Elijah went to sit down under a broom tree. (Trying to find shelter under a very imperfect source of shelter)
c)     Elijah asked the Lord for death, he wanted to die. (This is what happens when we are really down)
d)    Elijah said that:-
1-   He had enough.
2-   He wanted the Lord to take away His Life.
3-   He was no better than his fathers.
(This Second one reveals to me how It Piles Up When We Are Down)
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Chris.
This is true for many of us by experience. It piles up when we are down. We may try to shrug off our difficulties but most difficulties do not just shrug off. This is when we really need understanding and compassionate friends and ministers in the Body of Christ. I think that there are many True Believers living under a pile of something and are down. This is not sin, it simply means we need to exercise as a Church the Biblical injunction to weep with those people who are weeping and to rejoice with those people who are rejoicing. 

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