Wednesday's Word: Hamashgoach Nafshoteikhem/Watcher Of Our Souls

 

 

 

"My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind
 our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice."
(Song of Solomon 2:9)

 "For "you were like sheep going astray," but now you have returned to
the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls."
(1 Peter 2:25)

 

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"The church pleases herself with thoughts of further communion with Christ. 
None besides can speak to the heart. She sees Him come. This may be applied
to the prospect the Old Testament saints had of Christ's coming in the flesh.
He comes as pleased with His own undertaking.  He comes speedily.

 

Even when Christ seems to forsake, it is but for a moment; He will soon return with
everlasting love and kindness.  The saints of old saw Him, appearing through the
sacrifices and ceremonial institutions. We see Him through a glass darkly,
 as He manifests Himself through the lattices.

 

Christ invites the new convert to arise from sloth and despondency, 
and to leave sin and worldly vanities,  for union and communion with Him.

 The winter may mean years passed in ignorance and sin, unfruitful and miserable,
or storms and tempests that accompanied His conviction of guilt and danger. Even 
 the unripe fruits of holiness are pleasant unto Him whose grace has produced them. 

 All these encouraging tokens and evidence of Divine favour, are motives to the soul 
 to follow Christ more fully.  Arise then, and come away from the world and the flesh,
come into fellowship with Christ.  This blessed change is owing wholly to the
approaches and influence of the Sun of Righteousness."

-Matthew Henry's Commentary