Desire - May 17,2014

Scripture: Song of Songs 7-8

Song of Songs 7:3, 5-6, 8-13 NCV
Your breasts are like two fawns, like twins of a gazelle. Your head is like Mount Carmel, and your hair is like purple cloth; the king is captured in its folds. You are beautiful and pleasant; my love, you are full of delights. I said, “I will climb up the palm tree and take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like bunches of grapes, the smell of your breath like apples, and your mouth like the best wine. Let this wine go down sweetly for my lover; may it flow gently past the lips and teeth. I belong to my lover, and he desires only me. Come, my lover, let’s go out into the country and spend the night in the fields. Let’s go early to the vineyards and see if the buds are on the vines. Let’s see if the blossoms have already opened and if the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love. The mandrake flowers give their sweet smell, and all the best fruits are at our gates. I have saved them for you, my lover, the old delights and the new.

Message:
Desires should be held back for a time and given out and satisfied at the right time.

Observation/Promise:
God has given everyone of us desires in our hearts, dreams that we long to be fulfilled, ambitions and wants. But not every desire comes from God and not all desires are also necessarily just human but divine coming from God. We ought to know and understand which desires are from God and which are not. The right desires can be fulfilled in Gods time, but evil desires are like chasing after the wind.

Application/Command:
God has given us desires and we should know if these desires are from God or just our own human desires. Desires can be defiled by the evil one when they are not purified and cleansed by God. We have to pray about the desires of our hearts. If they are truly from God then they will be lasting through time and not fading because of difficult circumstances. Godly desires are confirmed by God Himself thru signs and wonders. God Himself will make those desires come to pass therefore let us guard our hearts so that our desires are conformed to His will not ours.

You Become what You Behold

31 So shall you heartily accept My commandments and conform your life and conduct to them. I am the Lord.
32 Neither shall you profane My holy name [applying it to an idol, or treating it with irreverence or contempt or as a byword]; but I will be hallowed among the Israelites. I am the Lord, Who consecrates and makes you holy,
33 Who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord.

- Leviticus 22

Conform means to comply with rules, standards or laws. It is also synonym to the word observe, follow or obey. It is only natural for people to follow other people. Children follow their parents, teenagers follow their peers. We all want to emulate or admire a certain person and follow that person. But GOD says in Romans 12:2 2 Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. We start conforming to the things that which we behold or put importance to.

GOD says do not conform to the worldly ways and it's system. So where should we conform to? In the book of Leviticus, GOD says to accept GOD's commands in our hearts and conform our life and conduct to them. So how do we put GOD's word in our hearts? By beholding them, reading them, meditating on them and constantly purposefully putting HIS word in our minds because our minds can wander off as far as Pluto. The mind is the battle ground, whoever controls your mind controls your life. What are you putting your time and devotion to is what will shape your life. What you behold is what you become. To behold is to see or observe (someone or something, especially of remarkable or impressive nature).You become what you behold. If you are beholding earthly things, you become just as temporary and easily faded as a thing. So be careful what you behold, because this is where we start to conform and become just it. Behold GOD's word and conform to it and you will become eternal because HIS word endures forever.