Year 5, Day 349: Song of Songs 7

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Discipleship Focus: Challenge

• Challenge: God does not merely wish us to be in relationship with Him as we are.  He challenges us to grow, stretch, and transform as we take on the mantle of being His representatives to this world.

It should make sense that after spending so much time looking at forgiveness and reconciliation that we should talk about challenge.  When we sin, we err.  When we err, we need to be forgiven.  When we are forgiven, we experience reconciliation.  This whole process implies that we have an area that needs to change.

How is it that we change?  Far more often than not we change because we are challenged into it.  We change because there is a need to change and that need is revealed to us.

In Song of Songs 7, we get the opportunity to hear how the love between Solomon and his wife has grown, matured, and become stronger in spite of the emotional barrier that his wife had erected.  The relationship was challenged.  Instead of dying, the relationship grew and got stronger!

We should all be this way in the face of challenge.  It is easy to give up when things get hard.  It is easy to walk away from challenge believing that we cannot overcome it.  But the challenge is there to see who we are deep down inside when it counts.  The challenge is there to help us grow, stretch, and become more than we thought we could be.

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