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Today's Reading: Song of Songs 4
Please read Song of Songs 4 and listen to what the Lord Jesus Christ would like to tell you before reading my Spiritual Journal below. If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from this blog. You may click this link directly for the method: Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf. (You may begin with a song to praise the Lord and complete you devotion by singing another praise song.)
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- Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song of songs 4&version=CUV
- NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song of songs 4&version=NIV1984
- ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song of songs 4&version=ESV
- Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song of songs 4&version=MSG
All beautiful you are, my darling;
there is no flaw in you.
Song of Songs 4:7
What I received from Jesus today is: There is no flaw in you!
This book wants to help us two things:
1. Our more intimate loving relationship with our spouse.
2. Our more intimate loving relationship with Jesus.
To deal with both situation this line "there is no flaw in you" is impossible. Why?
Because nobody is perfect, so it is impossible that a husband and a wife has no flaw!
And, since the Groom signifies God and the Bride signifies us. How can God see us as his bride as no flaw!
Wow! This may be one of the biggest "catch" in your life if you can get it!
"There is no flaw in you" is the most important secret in building up a loving relationship!
When you love someone, he or she really has no flaw. Everything is good!
I helped numerous couples for the past twenty-four years as an ordained priest to deal with their marriage problems. The No. 1 problem was not they had another man or woman or something really big. The No. 1 problem was they found more and more flaw in their spouse!
How can God loves us since we have so many flaw? Because He loves us and appreciates those things we have and does not look at those things we do not have. That's how God says He finds no flaw in us!
For an example, if God wants to give you a mark and say you have got 82 marks. It is pretty good, you have got an A-, right? But, if God looks at the 18 marks that you don't have, then you would be in big trouble. You 82 marks is what you got to have, and your 18 marks is what God wants to punish you for because you can never get that, or even you can improve you can get at most 87, an A, but you still have 13 marks you never can get. Why? You are a human being, you can never be perfect!
How can you expect your spouse to be perfect? How can you expect your children to be perfect? How can you expect your parents to be perfect? How can you expect your boss to be perfect? How can you expect your colleagues to be perfect? We are all human beings!
I got another example now. I was so tired Saturday night because I worked for 15 hours from 7a.m.(Sat.) to 1a.m.(Sunday) so I did not have the strength to write and record my two blogs and podcasts. I did that after I came back home of our three Sunday services. So, you had a delay in reading and listening to my blogs and podcasts. Then, I was too tired again to do today's blogs and podcasts yesterday night so I am doing this now at 11:22a.m.. But, if you do not understand my situation you may "curse" me for my delay because I made you unable to have a good daily devotion. You found flaw in me! But if you understand how hard I tried for the past nearly three years to help people to have a more intimate personal relationship with Jesus then you might start to pray for me knowing that I must be caught up in something you did not know. You did not find flaw in me or did not want to find flaw in me! Then, I am being prayed for and blessed rather than "cursed"! This is only a very small example I got from Jesus just a few minutes ago that He wants me to tell you!
Learn from Jesus and follow Jesus example to appreciate and love everything as in a groom to his bride no matter to your spouse, to God or in some positive sense to other people. Then, you will find that you know what a loving relationship really is and you will enjoy that intimate loving relationship. May be start with a loving look deep down into the eyes of your spouse and in a wider sense to other people. The difference of those wonderful figures in a wax museum or a corpse and a real person are the eyes!
"You eyes behind your veil are doves."
More deep loving eye-contact!
More understanding!
More forgiving!
More appreciation!
More loving relationship!
More love!
Please!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to learn from you and follow your example to find no flaw in our loved ones. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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Prayer items today:
For ACiC/AI
Bishop: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng (Michelle)
Network Leader: Rev. Peter Klenner (Jenny)
Network Leadership Team: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng, Rev. Peter Klenner, Rev. Ed Hird (Janice), Rev. Simon Neill (Jo), Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya), Mr. Andy Li (Amy)
Bishop's Chaplain: Rev. Ed Hird (Janice)
Bishop's Assistant: Mrs. Michelle Ng (Silas)
Clergy Formation Advisor: Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya)
Treasurer: Mr. Andy Li(Amy)
Administrator: Mrs. Zenia Cheng (Clarence)
Pray for our AMiA bishops:
The Rt. Rev. Philip Hill Jones (Claudia)
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Doc Loomis (Ellen)