What is the Point?: Discovering Life's Deeper Meaning and Purpose by Misty Edwards

Author:Misty Edwards [Edwards, Misty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, Spiritual Growth
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2012-12-04T08:00:00+00:00

—SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6

Jesus commands us to set Him as a seal on our hearts. He urges us to cry out to know Him as the God of all-consuming love. We set Jesus on our hearts simply by asking Him for it with a spirit of faith and obedience. To set Jesus as the seal on our heart means to beckon His fiery presence to touch or seal our hearts. By the very definition of love we must invite Him. He will not force us into a relationship of voluntary love. He waits until we invite Him in the matters of our heart.

We can’t live without a greater reality of Song of Solomon 8:6, because life is too lonely, empty, and aimless without a greater depth of the love of God. We must put this vision before our eyes over and over again. When God promises to write His name on us, this is in essence the same as putting His seal on us (Rev. 3:12; 22:4; Heb. 10:16). The theme of Song of Solomon 8:6 is God’s commitment to supernaturally seal our hearts with His fiery love. This refers to the supernatural anointing of the Holy Spirit to love Jesus as the Father loves Him and to fellowship with the burning heart of the Trinity as our greatest prize and primary destiny.

God wants to release the anointing of love as a seal. This seal is the guarantee that we will be brought forth in love (Rom. 5:5; Eph. 1:13). His plan will not fail, and the first commandment will prevail. God will have a people in unity with Him, and He will help us to love Him in the way He loves us. Jesus prophesied over us by not only commanding that we love Him but also declaring that we shall surely love God with all our hearts. He will help us. We must intentionally pursue this anointing of the love until the first commandment is in first place in our lives and ministry (Matt. 22:37). To set Jesus as a seal on our hearts is to call on Him to visit us by His Spirit until the influences of His love are progressively imparted more and more to our mind, emotions, and ministry. We set Him on our heart over and over again.

There is a literal encounter we have with God when we commune with the Holy Spirit. It is not imaginative or just a metaphor. It is a literal contact with God Himself. I am not talking about perpetual ecstasy or unusual encounters that are “supernatural” in the way that we typically define supernatural. I believe we will have those encounters on occasion. But what I am talking about is a steady stream of fire that is God Himself being poured into our hearts (Rom. 5:5). That steady stream will become a raging torrent until we are one with that holy, pulsating heart of divine fire.

We cannot fathom what we have been invited into in the “fellowship

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