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LOVE REVOLUTION 25th March 2008
Two words that I’m hearing a lot of lately are ‘Love’ and ‘Revolution.’
For a few months God has been speaking the word ‘Love’ to me in a big way. Every time I listen to a sermon on CD the topic centres on love. Every time I have opened the prayer meeting since January on a Monday night, God has given me words on ‘love’ to share and pray about.
Last Monday, 17th March, God gave me the beginning of a word on love. I sensed, though, that this was something bigger than just to share on a Monday night, and was for the wider church in the UK and beyond.
He took me to read a passage in the book of Songs of Solomon, a book which I haven’t really read with meaning before. It began in chapter 2 verse 3 with ‘beloved’ speaking. When I got to verse 7, I knew God had highlighted it to me. In the second part of the verse it says…
“Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.”
Immediately I felt God say ‘Now is the time to awaken love, it is now that it so desires.’
I read on, and verse 10 to 13 spoke so clearly to me again.
“My lover spoke and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me. See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.’
I felt as if God were saying these words to me himself. He was talking to His church, His bride, calling them to come with Him. He said that The winter is past and the rains are gone – the season of singing has come. God is calling His church to a new kind of revolutionary love; which isn’t really new at all, but how He wanted us to live all along. The time of spiritual winter is past, which has been a hard and barren time, and the new season of spring is here. This season God wants us to be ‘lovers.’ Firstly, lovers of God, then lovers of people. He is calling us to a revolutionary Christian walk centred wholly on love. God wants us to love Him first. I could hear many Christians say ‘I do love you first Lord,’ but they are deceived into thinking it. To love God first is to put everything else behind Him and make Him truly the centre of our lives. How could we think God is first when He only gets, maybe, five minutes of our time a day. God is calling us into this new season of love for our own benefit, then as a result, we will really be oozing love to other people.
It starts in a specific order.
1) Love God with all your heart, mind, strength and soul
2) We are then able to love ourselves, not with an arrogant pride, but with the heart of God. This is something a lot of the church struggle with; how we could love ourselves when we see our own sin.
3) Then we can love others in the church, something which is really needed and vital if we are to…
4) Be lovers of people outside of the church. This means loving the unlovely as Jesus did. Loving the people that wrong us or harm us. Not retaliating in anger, but reacting in love. For too long has the world seen the Church and despised the church for hypocrisy. With a ‘true’ God centred love we will be able to accept people as they are; such as drug addicts, thieves, murders, homosexuals and others.
This is truly a time to ‘see!’ as it says in verse 11. See that God is calling us to be Lovers. He wants us to ‘come after Him’ first. In Songs of Solomon 5 verse 2-8, beloved searches after her lover. She gets beaten and bruised and her cloak stolen. Even so, she says
“O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you – if you find my lover, what will you tell him? Tell Him I am faint with love.”
Even when things go so badly for the church, God wants us to have the attitude and feelings which say ‘I am faint with love for HIM.’
This revolutionary love will affect how we see the homosexual community – not with eyes of judgement and hate, but with eyes of compassion and love. We have heard the phrase ‘hate the sin but love the sinner,’ and think we piously live by that decree. God wants us to really know how to live that saying, and not just quote it ‘coldly.’
I know there is more in the book of Songs of Solomon for this time and this season.
Two others passages which God has ingrained in my Spirit are Matthew 5-7 and Matthew 25 which are again centred in love.
Mark Flint
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