INTIMACY V

The wind always speaks of a spirit or breath of life with expressions and functions. When God moves in our marriages, sometimes we do not know what is happening. There are hurts and sacrifices and dealings we never tell anyone. They are only secrets that God knows. Some of us are shut up like a spring, because we do not want to deal with the suffering, and we think that marriage comes without suffering and the flow of love stops. We cannot have a happy marriage if we are not willing to suffer because love suffers all things. When God brings love in our lives, we have to embrace heartache. When David and I leave, we suffer, we feel the separation, and when we come together, we have to learn how to flow because relationships bring suffering. That is why most marriages are dead because we think it should be happy all the time. There is a suffering of yielding and submitting, not because we want to hurt each other, but because of a yielding to Christ. Most marriages are like a closed book, but our marriage is supposed to be a book of life. We are writing a book, and every day our life is written in the book of life. When the winds of the Spirit bring the life of God, our life, our marriage, our covenant is recorded in the book of life because that is the process of expression. Some of our relationships are so abstract that we do not know any more what it is to be a husband or a wife. Some of us are married for legal sex. We do not love. We don’t endure, and we don’t give ourselves so we can create an environment for us and for others. Some times we wonder why young people do not want to get married. Maybe it is because they watch our marriages. How many Christian marriages inspire sinners to get married? How many of us inspire people to live?

How does the scent come forth from His garden? The winds of the Spirit blow on His garden. It says, “Awake, O north wind.” The word, awake, means to open the eyes. The north wind speaks of dark, gloomy, unknown, to hide or protect, to esteem privately. Suddenly unknown things come in our lives. The north wind will cause unexpected things to come and shake us up, and we cannot see clearly and we cannot walk anywhere. The north wind will come to us to awaken us and cause us to come into a new openness that the fragrances of what is real will flow out of us.

Every wind brings a new environment. To be fruitful, we need a different climate. God is allowing the changes in our lives, not to destroy us, but to bring the right fragrance in our lives. I think the greatest dreamers have been born in the greatest darkness. The greatest visionaries have come when the north wind has blown in the night to make out of mediocre marriages and mediocre individuals, heroes.

The south wind speaks of being parched, to bring heat. When the heat of our life comes to stir up the fragrances and the substances of God in us, then the spices will flow. It is then that it says in verse 16, “Let my beloved come to his garden.” When our marriages can become His garden, we will produce the presence of God and the weight of His glory.

Our destiny for our marriages is become His garden. God can come in the cool of the evening to commune us as husband and wife that we don’t have to hide between the trees and cover up our nakedness, but He can come into His garden because the spices are flowing out with the fragrances of life to express what Christ has done in you and me. Our marriages can be His garden to fulfill our destiny.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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