DCLM Daily Manna, Sunday March 27, 2016 by Pastor Kumuyi - Love That Is Real

Topic: Love That Is Real [Sunday March 27, 2016]

Text: Song of Solomon 3:1-11

Key Verse: "It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me" (Song Of Solomon 3:4).

During the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, sentenced a soldier to be shot for his crimes. The execution was to take place at the ringing of the evening curfew bell. However, the bell did not sound.

The soldier's fiancée had climbed into the belfry and clung to the great clapper of the bell to prevent it from striking. When she was summoned by Cromwell to account for her actions, she wept as she showed him her bruised and bleeding hands. Cromwell's heart was touched and he said, "Your lover shall live because of your sacrifice. Curfew shall not ring tonight!" The Song of Solomon is one of the poetical books of the Bible. It teaches certain lessons which inspire virtue and true love. In our text, the beloved goes to bed and in her dream, she left the security of her home and at night searched for her lover in the city.

The watchmen couldn't help her. But she persisted and when she eventually found him, she wouldn't let him go. Her desire was for them to get married; so, she brought him to her mother's house and into the very room where she herself had been conceived - the same way Isaac brought his wife Rebekah into his mother's tent - and there, consummated their marriage (Genesis 24:67). Stories like these are found all over this book, making some to conclude it is a book about love and relationships. But looking closely at those stories, there are lessons about our love and commitment to Christ whose beauty, charm and love is unparalleled and unequalled.

Like this lover in our text, we must seek after Christ with every determination, and when we have found Him, we must stay with Him for the rest of our lives. We must show commitment in return for His selfless sacrifice on the cross at Calvary.

Thought for the day: Real love requires great sacrifice.

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DCLM Daily Manna was written by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.