Everything Under the Sun

I love watching sunsets. I love watching what is under sunsets even more.

I love hearing the sweet girl across the street who practices her piano with the window open. I love the sound of my neighbor’s sprinklers. I love the planes that crawl across the sky. I love the people who laugh together as they walk past me. I love the Asian family that sits in their drive way together every evening to watch the sun slowly disappear.

Sunsets were made for people. God gave us the sunsets to help us understand him. He gave the sunsets to his people. Under the sun is a community of people, people that God cherishes and adores. Sunsets are simply a way of God showing his love for us.

Each sunset makes me think of his people and I love hearing their sounds at dusk.

I am my beloved's, and he is mine.

Song of Solomon paints a picture of a couple who desire each other and care for each other. The lover adores his beloved and treats her with respect and tenderness. He is sensitive to her and she responds to him with love. When she is treated with love, she eagerly desires to give herself wholly to her beloved. She desires to be possessed by her beloved as a response to his sensitivity.

In the same way, we respond to Christ. He has treated us with love and we then respond to him by giving ourselves wholly to him. Our obedience to him is a response to how we have been cared for and overflows from a deep and abiding love for him. How beautiful! We do not have to feel obligated to serve him--instead, let us long to give ourselves to him in obedience! Let us desire to be possessed by him because he has loved us so tenderly.

I will call out that I am my beloved's, and he is mine!