The Secret of the Stairs by Wade Taylor

Author:Wade Taylor [Taylor, Wade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian
ISBN: 9780974769004
Google: HugFAAAACAAJ
Goodreads: 2284642
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 1996-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

SEPARATED UNTO THE LORD

“Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved….?” Song of Solomon 8:5

The Lord is ready to begin the process of separation that will bring His Bride into the place where He will become first in all that she desires. Only then will she be able to trust Him with her care and protection. To accomplish this, He brought her into the wilderness for a time.

“Until the day break (spiritual breakthrough), and the shadows flee away, I will get Me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.”

Song of Solomon 4:6 (comment added)

There is before us a new day in which all that appears as shadows will become clear in the reality of our Lord’s presence and glory - to the Bride, and also to us. The wilderness is a place of barrenness and desolation in which the Bride is about to be separated from all that has meant so much to her. During this time of separation, these things will lose their value and become as nothing, in comparison to her newfound desire to be in the reality of His presence.

The Bride has come to the end of her own abilities and confessed her need of Him. In the barrenness of this wilderness experience, the Lord brought before her a very special revelation of Himself.

“Who is this that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? Behold His bed… threescore valiant men are about it….” Song of Solomon 3:6-7

The Bride marveled at this display of His power and might, as she witnessed the desire and ability of the Lord to bring her through the wilderness into the fullness of all that He intends for her. Now she sees only Jesus; all other things have lost their value as she falls in love with Him.

Carefully notice that He had been in the wilderness with her the entire time. Her “leaning” on Him tells us that she is coming out of the wilderness changed, fully trusting and totally dependent upon Him. Because she has come to the level of fully trusting the Lord, He can begin to deal with His Bride in a further step of separation.

In our spiritual growth and development, there is a progressive unfolding of our identification with the Lord as being a “particular” member who has been “set” within His Body.

“Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.” I Corinthians 12:27

Being His “potential” Bride, we must be firmly established upon the Rock, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the foundation upon which we are to be built.

“And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together grows to a holy temple in the Lord: In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.” Ephesians 2:20-22

Judicially (legally), the Lord sees us as being perfect.

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