tanhaSpiritual Bedroom - Place of Trust
August 19th 2007 06:38
Ah! The Bedroom!
What is a bedroom?
It’s a place I share with only the one person I most love and trust – if I share it at all!
There’s a dressing table with a mirror. I spend quite a bit of time studying my reflection – and dressing it up a bit, a touch here and a dab there, maybe a bit of a trim, sometimes a dusting down, a pull, a tug, until the presentation is up to scratch.
A wardrobe accommodates my outer presentation. It’s quite a big wardrobe because I have lots of variety, and it needs to operate over the four seasons. Actually my new house has a walk-in robe so I’ll probably fill that up quickly too! It’s good to have plenty of space to work with!
There’s an en-suite bathroom so I can clean up easily. That’s full of lovely creams, shampoos etc so I’ll feel good after the shower.
The big bed is beautifully dressed with quilts that blend with the soft-hued curtains, puffy pillows to lean on, a high-piled carpet to put my feet on. Nearby is a bedside table with a lamp, a lace doily and a book. Oh there’s an alarm there too, to keep me aware of the time.
It’s a place where no-one – but no-one – intrudes on my love. Spouse and children are not considered an intrusion on love – they are my loves. This is a place of deepest intimacy and sharing, of pleasuring and giving, of rest and the most intimate conversations at 3am, of safety and certainty. Above all, it’s a place of trust. Where trust is lost the intimacy is damaged and relationship is stripped right down to the ugly bare bones.
So what is my spiritual bedroom?
In the wardrobe I store the clothing of kindly acts. These need to be available in all seasons of life so there is a great collection of all sorts of them, and as I go I keep finding more and more ways of offering kindness and graciousness, and tossing old ways that are less appropriate today than they were. There are shoes that take me into various types of social terrain bringing words of peace and hope. Up above there are quite a few hats for different occasions, some for tough assignments and some in bouffant, party style. Some of the outfits are classics that will always be in fashion, and others are imaginative efforts that are only worn once or twice.
The bathroom is my cleaning place where I get rid of the most offensive blemishes. Others need more detailed attention and sometimes long term management. However, even if my friends are not offended by my pimple, I work hard to eradicate it with creams and medicines for my own satisfaction. When I know my fault I eradicate it fast!
At the dressing table I look even more closely into my spirit through the mirror called Bible. That actually reads me! It reflects back to me the things that I need to pay attention to, to grow and develop properly and to please the bridegroom. (No bride should ever get beyond wanting to please her beloved!) It shows me what God sees and what people might see as they quiz me. I touch up with promises from scripture to keep my spirit working well, smelling sweet, and to prepare me to meet the world at large.
The lamp by the bed is, like the Light of the World, always there when I need Him.
As I climb into the spiritual bed, or waken, I look forward to the intimacy of the Heavenly Bridegroom, Yeshua, for whom I keep my lamp trimmed (with wicks and oil) through reading the Word, praying, announcing my love, and waiting for a “kiss” from Him (some revelation of His heart and mind that he can share with me). Ah, there is always some beautiful thing from the Bridegroom designed solely for me to taste and enjoy. You can’t do this in a hurry – it requires time and just being together with words of love and beauty. Intimacy was ever thus!
There are other lovers too! Fornicators and adulterers, because we are designed for Yeshua alone. We can indeed play with them – Ego, Individual Ism and all that huge clan, Money, Fame, Attention, Addiction, Approval, Intellect, - but they will eventually leave us in the lurch, broken and hurting. It is better to wait on the real bridegroom, “Faithful and True”, for trust is the most important part of intimacy.
It never ceases to amaze me that God looks for intimacy with us, but it’s fact. That’s why He created us!
What is a bedroom?
It’s a place I share with only the one person I most love and trust – if I share it at all!
There’s a dressing table with a mirror. I spend quite a bit of time studying my reflection – and dressing it up a bit, a touch here and a dab there, maybe a bit of a trim, sometimes a dusting down, a pull, a tug, until the presentation is up to scratch.
A wardrobe accommodates my outer presentation. It’s quite a big wardrobe because I have lots of variety, and it needs to operate over the four seasons. Actually my new house has a walk-in robe so I’ll probably fill that up quickly too! It’s good to have plenty of space to work with!
There’s an en-suite bathroom so I can clean up easily. That’s full of lovely creams, shampoos etc so I’ll feel good after the shower.
The big bed is beautifully dressed with quilts that blend with the soft-hued curtains, puffy pillows to lean on, a high-piled carpet to put my feet on. Nearby is a bedside table with a lamp, a lace doily and a book. Oh there’s an alarm there too, to keep me aware of the time.
It’s a place where no-one – but no-one – intrudes on my love. Spouse and children are not considered an intrusion on love – they are my loves. This is a place of deepest intimacy and sharing, of pleasuring and giving, of rest and the most intimate conversations at 3am, of safety and certainty. Above all, it’s a place of trust. Where trust is lost the intimacy is damaged and relationship is stripped right down to the ugly bare bones.
So what is my spiritual bedroom?
In the wardrobe I store the clothing of kindly acts. These need to be available in all seasons of life so there is a great collection of all sorts of them, and as I go I keep finding more and more ways of offering kindness and graciousness, and tossing old ways that are less appropriate today than they were. There are shoes that take me into various types of social terrain bringing words of peace and hope. Up above there are quite a few hats for different occasions, some for tough assignments and some in bouffant, party style. Some of the outfits are classics that will always be in fashion, and others are imaginative efforts that are only worn once or twice.
The bathroom is my cleaning place where I get rid of the most offensive blemishes. Others need more detailed attention and sometimes long term management. However, even if my friends are not offended by my pimple, I work hard to eradicate it with creams and medicines for my own satisfaction. When I know my fault I eradicate it fast!
At the dressing table I look even more closely into my spirit through the mirror called Bible. That actually reads me! It reflects back to me the things that I need to pay attention to, to grow and develop properly and to please the bridegroom. (No bride should ever get beyond wanting to please her beloved!) It shows me what God sees and what people might see as they quiz me. I touch up with promises from scripture to keep my spirit working well, smelling sweet, and to prepare me to meet the world at large.
The lamp by the bed is, like the Light of the World, always there when I need Him.
As I climb into the spiritual bed, or waken, I look forward to the intimacy of the Heavenly Bridegroom, Yeshua, for whom I keep my lamp trimmed (with wicks and oil) through reading the Word, praying, announcing my love, and waiting for a “kiss” from Him (some revelation of His heart and mind that he can share with me). Ah, there is always some beautiful thing from the Bridegroom designed solely for me to taste and enjoy. You can’t do this in a hurry – it requires time and just being together with words of love and beauty. Intimacy was ever thus!
There are other lovers too! Fornicators and adulterers, because we are designed for Yeshua alone. We can indeed play with them – Ego, Individual Ism and all that huge clan, Money, Fame, Attention, Addiction, Approval, Intellect, - but they will eventually leave us in the lurch, broken and hurting. It is better to wait on the real bridegroom, “Faithful and True”, for trust is the most important part of intimacy.
It never ceases to amaze me that God looks for intimacy with us, but it’s fact. That’s why He created us!
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