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As the Beloved lavishes His love upon her, the Bride cries out for the WINDS (Holy Spirit - See Acts 2:2)to awaken and to blow on her and release her fragrance to bless the world outside her garden ('that its spices may flow out'). The cry is also that her Beloved may come to the garden and partake of it’s fruit (i.e. come into every area of her life and eat with pleasure the fruit of her life and ministry).
When He finally partakes
of her fruit (
5:1a), the cry is for others to be blessed
also (
5:1b - ‘Eat,O
friends.Drink,yes,
drink deeply’ )- In the same way, as we let Jesus come and partake of every
area of our life, we will bless others in those areas also.
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Note the order of the winds. What is your interpretation of this passage ( 4:16)? She actually cries out for the bitter, cold winds to blow upon her first! How many of us cry out for God to send His harsh dealings into our lives before His warm touch ? Yet this is what she does and we too must do if we really want our lives to count for His Kingdom.
Based on what we have already said about Myrrh, Spices, honey, milk, wine - interpret 5:1.......(You can refer again to the SPICE CHART)
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When Jesus comes to partake of your fruit waht do you have to offer Him ? Can He gather meekness ( Myrrh) and the sweet working of His Word ( Honey / Honeycomb) in your life ? Can he find real joy ( Wine) and a strong foundation of the basic doctrines of the faith ( Milk) ? Or will He only find bitterness and hurt - strife and envy ? That's why we need the South Winds (the testings of the Holy Spirit) - to blow away all the unwanted rotten fruit from our lives.
Pray for the South Winds now if you dare! Cry out for His testings so that all the rotten fruit may be blown out of your life and Jesus can come in fully to your life. He stands at the door and knocks, longing to come in and partake of the fruit in your life - do you have any to offer ?