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"I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night."

We will need to stay here for a while to look at this section in chapter 5. It is, to me, one of the most precious and revealing portions of Scripture. How many read across it, without being moved or stirred. Therefore, I will take time to cover this section which begins in verse 2, here, and goes through verse 9.

I sleep, but my heart waketh - we see again, as matches in chapter 3, there is a separation between those that love each other; There is the place again, as matches in chapter 3, that the night season is preferred here where all this happens. Now, it should be for us to note, that this same scenario just played out in chapter 3. Then why have returned to the same issue and problem? How is it that she would lose or be found asleep while her beloved is away and gone. It is the same for every Christian. OH, how we are near our Lord today, and gone tomorrow. We love and serve Him faithful this week, but alas, we are off to the City of Destruction next week. How fickle, how unfaithful to Him Who is always faithful.

'I sleep' is the key at the beginning of this. It is that message over and over again in the Scriptures that is laid to us - 'Awake'. We are asleep; while a world perishes. WE shall answer unto the Lord when we stand before Him for all the hours slumbering and sleeping while the work was needed to be done. We know that roughly 1/3 of our entire life was spent sleeping. One third gone, 33% of our entire existence sleeping. Was that too keep us from sinning more? To keep us away from other worldly inventions and endeavors, seeing that most spend their other 2/3 time in sin and disobedience. We see it when good Christian lays down to sleep on the Hill of Difficulty. He only intended to lay down for a moment, but overslept and all kinds of problems happened because of too much sleep. And it is the same today with so many, only 'a sleep, a little folding of the hands and then ruin.'

There is definitely something wrong with the soul that says, ' I love you' and then can go to sleep and not miss them. Can a parent go to sleep when their child is unaccounted for at night? Can a spouse not be concerned when their loved is out with no knowledge where they are? And can we not see that our Lord, Who knows all our musings in this life, knows where we are when we are absent from Him. Would to God that it was only we were tired and asleep; but we knwo the truth, when absent from the Lord we are usually in sin - if not sins of commission, then sins of omission.





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