MinistryMessages
August 17, 2019
This entry is part [part not set] of 2576 in the series Daily Words for the Christian Life
“We will make thee plaits of gold
With studs of silver.”
– Song of Songs 1:11, ASV
It is not wrong to be gifted, nor should we despise our gifts; the Lord doesn’t ask the Shulammite to cut off all of her hair. However, we need to see that what God wants to do is to constitute our ministry, together with its gifts, with Himself, by weaving Himself into our natural abilities. What God cares for is not our gifts in themselves, but whether or not our gifts have been constituted with Himself as the crown of gold.
Adapted from The Song of Songs: A Divine Romance, page 52.
Monday: “Plaits of Gold” (4)