{"id":4352,"date":"2009-06-15T20:04:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T00:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/200\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-06-15T20:04:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T00:04:04","slug":"song-of-solomon-416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/06\/15\/song-of-solomon-416\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of Solomon 4:16"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> &#8220;Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my<br \/>\n       garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; Song of Solomon 4:16<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anything is better than the dead calm of indifference. Our souls may<br \/>\nwisely desire the north wind of trouble if that alone can be sanctified<br \/>\nto the drawing forth of the perfume of our graces. So long as it cannot<br \/>\nbe said, &#8220;The Lord was not in the wind,&#8221; we will not shrink from the<br \/>\nmost wintry blast that ever blew upon plants of grace. Did not the<br \/>\nspouse in this verse humbly submit herself to the reproofs of her<br \/>\nBeloved; only entreating him to send forth his grace in some form, and<br \/>\nmaking no stipulation as to the peculiar manner in which it should<br \/>\ncome? Did she not, like ourselves, become so utterly weary of deadness<br \/>\nand unholy calm that she sighed for any visitation which would brace<br \/>\nher to action? Yet she desires the warm south wind of comfort, too, the<br \/>\nsmiles of divine love, the joy of the Redeemer&#8217;s presence; these are<br \/>\noften mightily effectual to arouse our sluggish life. She desires<br \/>\neither one or the other, or both; so that she may but be able to<br \/>\ndelight her Beloved with the spices of her garden. She cannot endure to<br \/>\nbe unprofitable, nor can we. How cheering a thought that Jesus can find<br \/>\ncomfort in our poor feeble graces. Can it be? It seems far too good to<br \/>\nbe true. Well may we court trial or even death itself if we shall<br \/>\nthereby be aided to make glad Immanuel&#8217;s heart. O that our heart were<br \/>\ncrushed to atoms if only by such bruising our sweet Lord Jesus could be<br \/>\nglorified. Graces unexercised are as sweet perfumes slumbering in the<br \/>\ncups of the flowers: the wisdom of the great Husbandman overrules<br \/>\ndiverse and opposite causes to produce the one desired result, and<br \/>\nmakes both affliction and consolation draw forth the grateful odours of<br \/>\nfaith, love, patience, hope, resignation, joy, and the other fair<br \/>\nflowers of the garden. May we know by sweet experience, what this<br \/>\nmeans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.&#8221; &#8212; Song of Solomon 4:16 Anything is better than the dead calm of indifference. Our souls may wisely desire the north wind of trouble if that alone can be sanctified to the drawing forth of the&#8230;<\/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-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","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=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}