Song of the Bride, Parts 1-34 - Feasting at the King's Table

stop this Fountain from flowing. In fact, it released its waters in such a way that it became available to every
man!
In every place where this living water has flowed, it has brought forth much fruit, eternal fruit unto His glory. It is
an emblem of the fruit of the Spirit in the life of the believer. The “pomegranate” is a symbol of fruitfulness as it
is full of seeds. Its likeness was embroidered on the hem of the robe of the High Priest. This fruit is a direct
result of Christ living out his life in us!
When He plants His pleasant plants in His garden, He plants the myrrh of the cross, the frankincense of death
and acceptability to God, the spikenard of humility, the henna of Christ’s attributes manifested in our lives. The
breaking up of fallow ground and digging about us can be quite dismaying when we don’t yet understand that
He must cleanse our “land” and root out every noxious weed to make room for all that is of His nature.
Closely connected with Christ’s life, death and burial, are the precious oils and costly, fragrant spices. The
anointings He received from the women who loved him so purely, appear to be more precious to Him than all
else that was done for Him while He was on earth. Mary “anointed Him for burial” with costly spikenard. The
anointing perfume must have been heavy upon His person when He stood before Pilate and the priests who
were too blind to perceive that before them stood the Heavenly Incense of God. As He stood among the
soldiers of Rome, they must also have smelled this strange perfume. As He took up His cross and went
outside the city, the air about Him must have been heavy with the odor of that anointing for His burial.
Nothing can ever be added to Christ’s work on Calvary, for there were not only some trees of frankincense,
and some chief spices, but all trees of frankincense, and all the chief spices! Not one thing can be added to the
preciousness of the Father that was in Christ.
PART TWENTY-NINE
Newsletter No. 204 – July/Aug. 2004
Song of Solomon 4:16, ”Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices
thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
A friend once told me of when the Lord first began to deal with her self-life. She was so much under conviction
that she asked Him to do a quick work in her. She said, “I lived to regret asking that because He answered my
prayer and sent the north wind to bring discipline and cleansing into my life which I had not expected.” When
she complained to the Lord about the things that were happening in her life, He reminded her of her prayer!
I used to wonder when I would see a believer consecrate themselves to the Lord in a deeper way, why hard
things came into their lives when I would have expected there to be blessings. It is needful that the north wind
(or spirit) come first to teach us and stir us up to press on; to show us where we are slack and where we must
put off the flesh, that we may put on Christ. Out of the north (the place of God’s throne), He moves upon all
that hides the truth of the gospel from our vision.
As He clears the spiritual atmosphere about us, the golden splendor of the light of God shines into our lives,
with the revelation of His terrible majesty. Job 37:22 says, “Out of the north cometh golden splendor; God hath
upon Him terrible majesty.” “Come, thou south” brings calm, peace and comforting movings of the Spirit. His
spouse has been tested as the Apostle Paul. “I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: to be
full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need” Phil. 4:12. Through these opposing movings of the
Spirit she has come into a state of spiritual “balance.”
Now, no matter whether her circumstances are favorable or not, she will not be adversely affected. She
recognizes, at last, that the crux of spiritual prosperity depends upon the inner man of the heart and not upon
external circumstances. She has finally seen that if there is fruit and fragrance within, either wind—north or
south, will only waft her inner fragrance farther afield when the wind blows. She knows His grace is sufficient
for all that He brings into her life. The pleasant south wind and the fearful north wind represent the different
circumstances appointed by the sovereign choice of the Holy Spirit to develop the fragrance of her garden. She
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