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I think it would be helpful if we used a Bible illustration. I’d like to
take that illustration from the Song of Solomon. If you study the
Song of Solomon it’s the testimony of the bride. She does all the
talking. In fact, she can’t shut up. When you read the book, she
does the talking but He wrote the song. Husbands, we will write the
song that our wives will sing.

In the Song of Solomon at the beginning, this woman felt very low.
She kept cutting herself down. She looked at her husband and said,
“He’s so wonderful that I don’t deserve him.” She’s working hard
to gain His approval. She tries to make herself attractive. Then the
groom says Song 4:12-15, “A garden locked is my sister, my bride,
a rock garden locked, a spring sealed up. Your shoots are an orchard
of pomegranates with choice fruits, henna with nard plants, nard and
saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all the trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest spices. You are a garden
spring. A well of fresh water, and streams flowing from Lebanon.”
When she heard those words, “You are my garden,” she was amazed
because she thought she was the gardener. He said, “You are not
the gardener; you are the garden; a garden locked and a garden
enclosed.” And for the first time in the Song the bride begins to
understand. The groom was saying to the bride, “I love you just the
way you are. You don’t need to make yourself attractive and you
don’t have to try so hard to win my approval. Up to this time it was
her efforts but now she said, “I’m his garden.”

Song 4:9, “You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride;
You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your
eyes, with a single strand of your necklace.” The groom said, “You
make my heart skip a beat. You ravish my heart. My heart beats
fast when I see you.” Do you believe that the Lord’s heart beats fast
when He looks at you? His heart skips a beat. He loves you and He
delights in you. That’s not flattery. Flattery is an insincere
complement. This is how He really feels.

When she understood that she was his garden and that he loved her,
she prayed a prayer that I’m calling the indispensable disposition.