Thy name is sweet as ointment poured forth

Song of Songs 1:2-3 says, “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! / For your love is better than wine. / Your anointing oils have a pleasant fragrance; / Your name is like ointment poured forth; / Therefore the virgins love you. ” The first step of pursuing the Lord begins not with the spirit but with the heart. Everyone who follows the Lord is first drawn by the Lord. Hence, this seeker of the Lord says, “Draw me; we will run after you” (v. 4). If we do not love the Lord with our heart, the Lord will not be able to do anything in us. We love the Lord because our heart is drawn by Him. This love is not a love of adoration or affection but a romantic love. He is so good and so sweet! He is altogether lovely! We must love the Lord to such an extent.

Our heart connects and joins our soul with our spirit. When we love Him, this love will transmit what is in our spirit to our soul. As we love the Lord, we will see how much we are filled with ourselves in our mind, emotion, and will. Then we are willing to take the cross. To take up the cross is to deny our soul, to deny our mind, emotion, and will, and to deny our very being. When we do this, the cross will set a mark on us and kill our self. In this way we will experience the cross. Our self, our love, our choice, our resolution, and our knowledge will all be on the cross.

When the cross works in our soul, it kills the self in our mind, emotion, and will. Where there is the death of the cross, there is also resurrection. The cross works in our mind, emotion, and will to create room for Christ to be in us. At this time the Spirit also transfuses God’s mind into our mind, God’s emotion into our emotion, and God’s will into our will. The more we know Him, the more we will know ourselves; the more we know ourselves, the more the cross will work in us; and the more the cross works in us, the more the Spirit will come into every part of our being. When the Spirit comes in, Christ comes in, and when Christ comes in, God comes in.

As a result, day after day our mind, emotion, and will are filled with God’s element. Then our thoughts will become God’s thoughts, and our preferences will become God’s preferences. God will mingle Himself with us to the extent that all our attitudes, speaking, expression, and actions will express God. When God has mingled Himself with us and has filled us with all His riches, we will become His fullness.

The Crucified Christ
Chapter 6 The Requirements
for Receiving the Cross (LSM)

Thou art my life, and I Thine image real;
Love in such union is as death most strong,
Ne’er can it be destroyed or e’er replaced
Till Thou on spices mountains come ere long.

Praise the Lord!

The Lord loves us so much that He sets us as a seal on His heart and as a seal on His arm; we lean on our Beloved and He carries us on. Oh Lord Jesus we love you ❤️!

Oh, this song is so wonderful and the singing is so beautiful! Lord, You are our Beloved! Draw us, Your drawing power is our pursuing power!

Great

Hard to get into this hymn at first because it is so poetic. But then when I got to vs. 6, “His, wholly His, the joy of all His joys”, I saw how much He desires us. Our Lord wants to be in a union with us so much. “He wholly mine, the Song of Songs to me. ” Vs. 7 shows His mingling with us. Oh come Lord Jesus!

Amen