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I have just spent the late afternoon/eaerly evening hours resting, spending  Time in the Arms of my Lover, this King of Glory.  

He makes me giggle.  I love spending time with Him.  I need Him with me all the time.

So, I am reading John Crowder’s latest book “The Ecstasy of Loving God“, and already getting a sense of a release to love, a release to enjoy the pleasures of God.  

Love, Who is God, needs expression in order to be truly fulfilled.  Love unrequited is Love frustrated (ask me how I know).  A lot of what confuses and bewilders people about God encounters, I believe, is the misinterpretation, the mis-perception, if you will, of God’s longings, His yearnings for us.

And we are the objects of His Love: humankind.  We’re the reason for The Plan, we are the reason for the Whole Show.  Family, children, offspring to raise up, train up and bequeath the Family Business to as an inheritance.

And, get this, the Will has been prepared, the Death has been accomplished, and the Executor of the Will has been forever Resurrected to Administrate that Will and ensure all inheritors, all named parties, are given all that is promised unto them.

He’s our Holy Executor, Love, Love’s Son, Himself.

But that’s just one benefit of this Covenant, and there are countless more.  However, I am just now learning, in very recent months, less than 20, about the bliss of His Love.

Bill Johnson described this sort of experience in his book “Dreaming With God” when he wrote how that narrow is the Way and strait is the Gate to Salvation… but once you are Inside, you find there is sooo much more (beyond the threshold) inside, than outside.  Were truer words ever spoken of this?

And His pleasure is just one, and one I am just beginning to perceive and experience.  

And without guilt.  He actually thanked me for spending Time in His Arms.  What a King is this?  Thanking me for the honor it is to me to dwell in His Presence, not to even mention laying in His Arms.

And “our song” played over and over again, for hours.. it was the Most Romantic Moment so far of my life.

To think that I can please the Lord, I can woo and romance Him.  I can make Him giggle and swoon with Love over me:

9Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! (Song of Solomon 4:9-10)

5Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: (Song of Solomon 6:5)

Romantic Moments.

Admittedly, the difficulties I had in even allowing The Father’s love in and on me were because of old baggage I carried.  Baggage from difficult family relationships, confused alliances, emotional mishandlings I suffered earlier in life.  His Great Love is restoring me, comforting and healing me, inside out.

But Romance?  I never really expected Romance, not even really in the natural.  I figured I was late to the show, it was too late, and that was okay with me.  I even told the Lord that.  I said I am fine with it being just me and Him, all business, getting the job done, then I can Go Home.

It was HIM.  HE’s the One who started talking to me about Love, and Covenant marriage, and connecting with another.

OK.  So then we started our “Therapy/Pre-marital Counseling” sessions.

Then, His Romance!

I was not aware He was actually also preparing His bride for Himself.  Makes sense, though; how can you love if you cannot receive it.  You cannot give to another what you yourself do not have.  True love must be received first from Him, from God.  Love is the True Teacher of love.

He Romances me.  He whispers sweet things to me.  He knows all my favorite things, my favorite colours, my favorite songs.  He remembers all of my dreams and desires.  He lets none of them fall.

He keeps me, I am a kept woman.

He tells me some of His Secrets.

He shares His Heart with me.

And He can cook!  Did you know that the Lord can cook?  Every recipe you can imagine.  When you think that you have ”nothing’ in your kitchen, He can put together a dish you could not have ever dreamed, and teach you to prepare it in ways you could never have thought.  I unequivocally aDORE a guy who can cook!

He’s a Dreamer.  He has Dreams, He imagines, He has Desires.  His Secret Wishes are coming to pass, but there are so many more.

He longs for us soooo very much more than we long for Him.  He is more eager to be with us than we are to be taken away by Him.

What kind of Holy Consummation will be that?

 I long for that Day.

Amen,

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