Ah, how often the enemy succeeds, by one device or another, in tempting the believer away from that position of entire consecration to Christ in which alone the fulness of His power and of His love can be experienced. We say the fulness of His power and of His love; for he may not have ceased to love his Lord.
In the passage before us [Song of Solomon 2:8-17] the bride still loves Him truly, though not wholly; there is still a power in His Word which is not unfelt, though she no longer renders instant obedience. She little realizes how she is wronging her Lord, and how real is the wall of separation between them. To her, worldliness seems as but a little thing; she has not realized the solemn truth of many passages in the Word of God that speak in no measured terms of the folly, the danger, the sin of friendship with the world.
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” “Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.” “Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?. . .Wherefore:
Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and I will receive you, and will be to you a father, and ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 6:17-18
We have to take our choice: we cannot enjoy both the world and Christ.
Excerpted from Union and Communion by Hudson Taylor. Public domain.
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