Week Sixteen - Mercy is Beautiful

Tuesday Day 110      2-1-11

So I forgot my Bible in my apartment today and there's way too much snow to run back to get it, so I'm just gonna write about something I've been thinking about lately.

There's a song that one of our nightwatch worship leaders sings often and one of the phrases goes, "Your mercy will be remembered forever". One night while we were singing that, it hit me. "Your mercy" is Jesus! Jesus and His blood is a form of God's mercy. We will remember what Jesus did for usforever! He's so good! J

Wednesday Day 111   2-2-11

Song of Solomon 2:3-5

Like the finest apple tree in the orchard is my lover among other young men. I sit in His delightful shade, and taste His delicious fruit. He escorts me to the banquet hall; His banner over me is love. Strengthen me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am weak with love.

"Worthy are You

Lamb who was slain

Receive the reward of Your suffering

We pour our love on You

In the middle of the night"

This passage is so overwhelming me I don't even know where to start.

"I sit in His delightful shade"

I sit. It's our choice to come and sit in Jesus' "shade". His presence is so refreshing. When we chooseto sit in His still, quiet presence, we will have just a taste of who He is, and the things He wants to give us. But it's our conscious decision to sit with Him that then allows Him to bring us into His banqueting hall, where He can give us the full feast, our heart's desire!

Psalm 37:4

Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires.

Weather we realize it or not, the deep desires of our heart are that we would know Him. We were created that way.

"His banner over me is love". Some versions say, "It is obvious that He loves me".

He does all this for us because He loves us.

As I began writing this, the worship team began singing these lyrics and I distinctly heard Him say "You are My reward. Your love is My reward. You being with Me for eternity is My reward."

My heart is literally weak with love. I am so hungry for His word and His love. No other thing on earth could fill this ache in my heart because He is the One who gave it to me in the first place!