{"id":4303,"date":"2009-04-12T16:32:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T20:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=41"},"modified":"2009-04-12T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T20:32:52","slug":"song-of-solomon-52-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/04\/12\/song-of-solomon-52-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of Solomon 5:2"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I sleep, but my heart waketh.”
\n — Song of Solomon 5:2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paradoxes abound in Christian experience, and here is one-the spouse
\nwas asleep, and yet she was awake. He only can read the believer’s
\nriddle who has ploughed with the heifer of his experience. The two
\npoints in this evening’s text are-a mournful sleepiness and a hopeful
\nwakefulness. I sleep. Through sin that dwelleth in us we may become lax
\nin holy duties, slothful in religious exercises, dull in spiritual
\njoys, and altogether supine and careless. This is a shameful state for
\none in whom the quickening Spirit dwells; and it is dangerous to the
\nhighest degree. Even wise virgins sometimes slumber, but it is high
\ntime for all to shake off the bands of sloth. It is to be feared that
\nmany believers lose their strength as Samson lost his locks, while
\nsleeping on the lap of carnal security. With a perishing world around
\nus, to sleep is cruel; with eternity so near at hand, it is madness.
\nYet we are none of us so much awake as we should be; a few
\nthunder-claps would do us all good, and it may be, unless we soon
\nbestir ourselves, we shall have them in the form of war, or pestilence,
\nor personal bereavements and losses. O that we may leave for ever the
\ncouch of fleshly ease, and go forth with flaming torches to meet the
\ncoming Bridegroom! My heart waketh. This is a happy sign. Life is not
\nextinct, though sadly smothered. When our renewed heart struggles
\nagainst our natural heaviness, we should be grateful to sovereign grace
\nfor keeping a little vitality within the body of this death. Jesus will
\nhear our hearts, will help our hearts, will visit our hearts; for the
\nvoice of the wakeful heart is really the voice of our Beloved, saying,
\n“Open to me.” Holy zeal will surely unbar the door.<\/p>\n

“Oh lovely attitude! He stands
\nWith melting heart and laden hands;
\nMy soul forsakes her every sin;
\nAnd lets the heavenly stranger in.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I sleep, but my heart waketh.” — Song of Solomon 5:2 Paradoxes abound in Christian experience, and here is one-the spouse was asleep, and yet she was awake. He only can read the believer’s riddle who has ploughed with the heifer of his experience. The two points in this evening’s text are-a mournful sleepiness and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}