Over There, I’ve Forgotten Who I Am

O my love, you [are as] beautiful as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as [an army] with banners! Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair [is] like a flock of goats going down from Gilead. Your teeth [are] like a flock of sheep which have come up from the washing; every one bears twins, and none [is] barren among them.  Like a piece of pomegranate [are] your temples behind your veil. There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number. My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The daughters saw her and called her blessed, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. (Song 6:4-9)

The above is a rather moving song of prophesy describing the glory of the true church in the latter days.

The outward appearance of God’s church is plain as a country girl, and her inner spiritual life full as the heavenly Jerusalem. When she moves, her power is awesome as an army with banners, marching forward invincibly. The Lord is so deeply touched by her selfless and sacrificial love, shown through her eyes, that He cannot look directly into them.

The submissiveness of the church is not a passive one that hides and keeps her talents, but rather an active one striving to earn ever new talents. As a flock of goats going down the mountains one after another, every church worker is washed by the blood of the Lord, holy and persevering, united in mind and action, and none is left alone.

As prophesied by the Lord, the church in the latter days is in a chaotic era where one often hears “Christ is here; Christ is there!” The Lord warned His disciples, who ought to know that they are the “only” chosen ones, that they should not go out, nor should they believe, for the Lord would not work outside of them. Do not think that the Lord is also with others because “over there” are many members and books. Do not think that there is also the work of Christ because “over there” are found many miracles.

Many who think they “belong to Christ” have appeared. Among them are the “sixty queens” who claim to be orthodox, the “eighty concubines” who seem to be greatly blessed and possess many gifts, and the numerous hard-working “virgins” who claim not to belong to any denominations but to Christ alone. They are indeed bewildering. However, the Lord already said, “My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her.

It is “the only one”. It is the unchanging plan and promise of God from the beginning, regardless of how unacceptable the concept is to the minds and feelings of men. Even if this daughter does not have the glory of a “queen” nor the beauty of a “concubine”, she is still “the only one of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her!” What else can men say?

Despite the prophesy of the Scriptures long ago and the unequivocal words of Jesus, sometimes “the favorite and only one of the Lord” still forgets the Lord’s reminder “do not go out! do not believe” and ends up going “over there”. Being fascinated by the “sixty”, “eighty”, and “without number”, and drawn in the vortex of “orthodox, blessed, and hard-working”, she often turns around and laughs that the Lord has spoken “proud and conservative” words.

The daughter of the King has forgotten about her blood relationship with her Father and the nobility of being “the only one”. She ends up esteeming the whispers of the queens as the authoritative source in interpreting the King’s words, quoting the blessings of the concubines as the evidence of being loved by the Father, and considering the hard-working spirit of the non-denominational virgins as an example to imitate. She only wishes that she is “one of them” instead of “the only one”, and totally forgets who she is—that greatly saddens and grieves her Father.