May 2008

The Pastor's Point:

In the Bible’s Song of Songs, Solomon writes these words: “My lover spoke and said to me, ‘Arise my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.  See!  The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.  Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in the land.  The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.  Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me,’” (Song of Songs 2:10-13 NIV).

As I look out my window this beautiful May morning the words of Solomon come to me, “…the season of singing has come.”  There is much activity around our bird feeder this morning.  The squirrels are running here and there and trying to get up the pole of the feeder.  The Dogwoods are blooming, the Pansies are showing their smiling faces, the sun is shining, the air is warming and in this season of winter past, I can agree with Louis Armstrong, “What a Wonderful World.”

In a world blighted by sin, we can still see evidences of why God saw that what he had created was “good.”  Evolutionists teach that the world is evolving into a more beautiful and perfect order.  In their minds the best is yet to be (in say another couple of million years).  But the Bible reveals that the world was at its best when God first created it and, because of sin, it is not getting better but worse. 

The Evolutionists have it right in believing that the best is yet to be, but that best in not to be in this earthly existence.  The best is yet to be at the coming of God’s Son who is creation’s Savior.  In Romans 8:19-21 we read, “The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.  For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.”  The “Blessed Hope” of the church is also the “Blessed Hope” of creation—that being, the coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ.

So in this beautiful month of May, let us rejoice that the season of singing has come and even more so as we look to the coming season of Christ’s return when he will say to all who love him, “Arise my darlings, my beautiful ones, and come with me,” and then the we will know that the real “Season of Singing” has truly come at last.   

                                                                        B.C.