My only hope is the Lord
My only hope is the Lord
| My only hope is the Lord; Everything depends on Him. Lord, I’ve loved You before, But I know that love is unstable. Set me as a seal on Your heart, Set me as a seal on Your arm. My trust is not in my holding power But in Your love and strength. In this close, sweet union, I lean on You, my Beloved. Fill my being to express You, Lord, Until You come, my Love. |
Verse 6 says, "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." When she recalls her original condition, she cannot help but be filled with humility. She cannot help but consider her emptiness, the vanity of her experience, the undependability of her mind, and the futility of her pursuit. Her only hope is the Lord. She realizes that whether she can endure to the end does not depend on her own endurance, but on the Lord's preservation. No spiritual perfection can sustain a person until the Lord's return. Everything depends on God and His preserving power. When she realizes this, she cannot help but exclaim, "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm." The heart is the place of love, while the arm is the place of strength. "Set me as permanently as a seal upon Your heart, and as indelibly as a seal upon Your arm. Just as the priests bore the Israelites upon their breasts and their shoulders, remember me constantly in Your heart and sustain me with Your arm. I know that I am weak and empty, and I am conscious of my powerlessness. Lord, I am a helpless person. If I try to preserve myself until Your coming, it will only bring shame to Your name and loss to myself. All my hopes are in Your love and power. I loved You before. But I know the undependability of that love. Now I look only to the love You have toward me. I held You once, and it seemed to be a powerful grip. But now I realize that even my strongest grip is just weakness. My trust is not in my holding power, but in Your holding power. I dare not speak of my love to You any longer. I dare not speak of my grasping of You any longer. From this point on, everything depends on Your strength and Your love.
CWWN, Set 2, vol. 23, The Song of Songs, Section Six.
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Austin, Texas, United States
My only hope is the Lord.
Hong Kong
Yes Lord, You’re my only hope!
Urbana, IL, United States
Keep leaning on the Lord!
Irvine, CA, United States
Lord You know my love toward You is unstable, but You still love me anyways. Thank You Lord for loving me with Your unwavering love.
Teach me to depend on You absolutely, to trust only in You. I lean on You, my Beloved.
Anaheim, CA, United States
Amen! Increase our love for You with the divine love.
Irvine, CA, United States
Lord, my only hope is on You! I trust on and in You!
Philippines
Thank You Lord Jesus, though our love is unstable yet You're still faithful. We want to love You not by the measure of our own love but by the grace of God!
Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines
Lord, You know that, like Peter, we love You. But Lord Your love is more than what we have. We need Your everlasting love toward us to love You in return.
Irvine, United States
"We are totally unable to keep ourselves in the grace of God. There is no guarantee that even five years after we have been saved we will be found in the measure of faith we had in our earlier Christian life. We cannot abide in the grace of God by our own effort; He alone can maintain us in His grace." - WN, "God's Keeping Power"
Lord, I’ve loved You before, but I know that love is unstable. Set me as a seal on Your heart, set me as a seal on Your arm, my trust is not in my holding power but in Your love and strength!
Philippines
Lord, I’ve loved You before, But I know that love is unstable.
That's is why we really don't want to trust in our own holding power. What we need is the Lord's love and strength. We love because He first loved us.