My Beloved is Mine

My Beloved is mine and I am His.

                – Song of Solomon 2:16

One of essences of true love is to know that the one you love is yours.  This tears down doubts; it tears down fears; it tears down worry.  There is emotional security in knowing that the one you love is truly and always yours.

We fail too often to realize that the God we are to love is ours.  That Jesus who lived, died on a cross, and is resurrected is ours.  Because He is ours, we are His.  The more I realize that He lived and died for me, and the more you realize that He lived and died for you, the more we will become His. 

I wonder today if we are capable of accepting the idea that He is ours.  We are so conditioned to understand that God is so vast, so enormous, so powerful that we are barely worth noticing by comparison.  Yet, if we were the only sinning human on the planet, He would have lived, died, and resurrected just for us.  He is ours if we will accept Him.  He is yours; He is mine; and He is always there.  He will never leave us; He will never fail us; and He is always for us.  Nothing can remove you from the One who loves you forever.  My God is always mine and I am always His.

When we are able to open our heart and accept this, following Him is not work or impossible.  Serving someone that you love with all your heart is never a chore.  When we love ourselves more than the one we are serving, it is a chore and that work will create strife and bitterness.  But when we serve someone we love with all our heart, it is a joy and we even try to think of what else we can do to love them more fully!

Do you doubt God today?  Does doing “the right thing” according to His Word hurt you today?  Find His love and know that He is yours so that you can become His.  Let that love tear away your doubts and make serving Him and those He loves a joy in your life. 

Does the person you love today know that you are theirs?  Open your heart and let them know that they have all of it.  Let that tear down any doubts and fears between you.  In so doing they will become yours.

I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine.

 – Song of Solomon 6:3