You Are Beautiful To Me

The Lord is saying: I Am here, and I Am with you.  Do not feel yourself a failure for not doing things perfectly as you had hoped.  You are still a work in progress so you may find yourself lacking in some area, and that is OK.  Just learn from your mistakes and move forward, for today is another day.  Just because you are a child of Mine doesn’t mean that you will follow My will in every detail, but these are points of training that you move towards Me with the intention of doing good.  I see, but do not forget that I Am full of grace toward you so there is no need to place unneeded burdens upon yourself.  I will guide you in your steps, yes, but I also am very gracious when you stumble at any point.  If you were to see all that you do at once, then you would become hopeless and broken.  Instead, I only show you the next thing that requires attention, that you learn and apply it to your walk, and this is wisdom.  As long as you are in the earth, every day is a day to grow spiritually and emotionally, and one day you will look back from where you came and see the beauty your lives have become.  

 

SoS 4:1-16 (ESV) He Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. 2  Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them has lost its young. 3  Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil. 4  Your neck is like the tower of David, built in rows of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors. 5  Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies. 6  Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go away to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense. 7  You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you. 8  Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Depart from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards. 9  You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. 10  How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice! 11  Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. 12  A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed. 13  Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard, 14  nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all choice spices— 15  a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon. 16  Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow. She Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits. 

Old Growth Is Removed

The Lord is saying:  I Am here, and I Am with you.  You are in a season of pruning, My loves.  I Am cutting away all that is old so that the new can sprout and grow and flourish before you.  That which you relished before will now become anathema as its time has come to an end.  You may think that this is unnecessary, as what is familiar to you for most of your lives seems to be fine in your eyes, but I have something much better in store for you.  Not only will the old be removed, but new soil will be added and tilled so that the new growth will not be hindered in any way.  I ask that you not be upset or resistant to this process, as it must happen, My loves.  The removal of the old growth must happen because it has become unusable for Me because there is too much of “you” in it.  When this old growth is removed, you will be astonished at how all things will flourish right before your eyes and with little effort on your part. 

 

John 15:1-17 (ESV) “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2  Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3  Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5  I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6  If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8  By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9  As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11  These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. 12  “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14  You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15  No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16  You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17  These things I command you, so that you will love one another. 

This Requires Wisdom

The Lord is saying:  I Am here, and I Am with you.  My loves, things are not what they seem as the enemy of your soul is deceitful to the core.  The enemy seeks but to steal, kill and destroy, so when you sense that something is not right, be rest assured that it is the enemy of all things good.  You see when something is out of order and are pressed to find a solution, I Am here to guide you through these things.  There is nothing that can harm you other than falling for the schemes of the enemy of your soul.  This requires wisdom, My loves, as I Am the source of wisdom, so you are to turn to Me at all times and in all things.  When you are in My care, then I can direct your steps, and you will not be influenced by these lies the world will throw at you continuously. 

 

Zech 3:1-10 (ESV) Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. 2  And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?” 3  Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments. 4  And the angel said to those who were standing before him, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him he said, “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.” 5  And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD was standing by. 6  And the angel of the LORD solemnly assured Joshua, 7  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here. 8  Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch. 9  For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. 10  In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.”