The King's Garden

The Christian people are "the king's garden." They are the "elect" of the Lord in whom His "soul delights" (Isaiah 42:1). We have little concept of the greatness of the Lord's love toward us.

One of the principal burdens of the Holy Spirit in the present hour is the proclaiming of God's love toward His people. We are God's people. His love is toward us. He has known us from the beginning of the world. He has called us in Christ. He has declared us to be righteous, having justified us according to His own will. He gave His only Son in order to make an atonement for us, and through Him will freely give us all things (Romans 8:30-33).

It is time to speak comfortably to God's people. Dark spiritual clouds are moving overhead. God wants each of His flock to understand perfectly that the love of Christ is toward him and that there is no power in the heavenlies, on the earth, or under the earth that can separate one of the least of Christ's lambs from His love and total, unfailing protection.

The Body of Christ, the Wife of the Lamb, is a "garden inclosed," a "spring shut up," a "fountain sealed" (Song of Solomon 4:12). For nearly two thousand years the Lord Jesus has waited, knowing that the Father has promised He will see the results of the travail of His soul.

The history of the Christian Church may appear to be a confusing record of stops and starts, of backslidings and revivals. There has been a division of the one Body of Christ into a multitude of competing denominations. But all these "clouds" are "the dust of his feet." The end result will be the Wife of the Lamb, a creature without blemish, a beautiful garden of spiritual delight nourished by the sparkling, flowing fountain of the waters of eternal life.

Today the church is "inclosed" and "shut up." But the time is at hand when the winds of God will blow on the Church and the long-awaited maturing of the Wife of the Lamb will take place.

Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. (Song of Solomon 4:16)

In the near future, there will be "north winds" of fiery trials, persecutions, and tribulations. There also will be "south winds" of revival power, and glory without precedent in the history of the earth. Both suffering and resurrection life are visiting the Christian Church in the present hour. It requires both rain and sun to ripen wheat. The Lord of the harvest is waiting for the precious fruit of the earth.

The Christian Church today is a "valley of dry bones." But the winds of God will breathe on the slain and they will live (Ezekiel 37:9). In the hour in which we live the Church is being empowered to "rise"; to "shine." The Glory of Christ is beginning to be seen on the Body of Christ. When Jesus returns, the Church will have been made ready for Him in holiness and in unity, being in His image in every characteristic.

God knows what He is doing. The time for the perfecting of the Wife of the Lamb, who is the King's "garden," is here. All that God has promised concerning the perfecting of His saints is nearly ready to be unveiled in the sight of the heavens and the earth. This is part of the Divine work of restoration.

To be continued.