Let the Stormy Winds Blow

 

 

The winds have been relentless these past few days. Strong winds coming in from the North, notoriously known for its power and cold harshness, have blown everything in its path. We know the Master of the wind is the one in control of them, but He brings not just these literal forces of nature. He sometimes ushers in spiritual "stormy wind,fulfilling His Word," Psalm 148:8 as well.

The Lord led me to this verse in Song of Solomon this morning- S.O.S. 4:16,"Awake, O north wind; and come thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into His garden, and eat His pleasant fruits." It jumped out at me with the help that I needed. When the Lord allows spiritual stormy winds to blow into our lives, there is ALWAYS a reason for it. It is part of HIS PLAN. The Lord has placed His Seed into our souls, His spiritual garden, to produce fruit. Not our fruit, or works of righteousnesses which we have done,but HIS FRUIT that remains.  The Lord purges us to remove useless "chaff" from our lives, as stated in Hosea 13:3."...as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor...". He blows His Holy North wind down from Heaven, to us on earth, in the south, to produce this effect in our souls. When the chaff is blown away from the threshing floor,the wheat, or fruit, is all that remains. God wants us to be more and more like HIM, being conformed to His image. He wants to produce only the FRUIT of the Spirit, as found in Galatians 6:22-23,and remove all else.

"He causeth it to come whether for correction, of for his land, or for MERCY." The Lord was talking in this verse to Job, 37:13. It may be for correction to purify sins out of our lives that are there, or it may be because of His mercy. How could it be by MERCY? Only the Lord knows what would happen to us spiritually if the chaff was allowed to stay there. It could corrupt the spiritual fruit produced in our lives, and make it of none effect. "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Gal.6:8. "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law." "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." Phillipians 2:13.

The Lord wants His spiritual fruit to be all that remains after  His winds have blown over us, so "that the spices thereof may flow out.."as stated in Song of Solomon.Just as Job had not suffered as a result of sin in his life, it was a test of stormy wind that purged his own view of righteousness from himself. "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." Job 41:5&6.  "..that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." Phillipians 1:10&11.Then the Lord will smell the sweet smell from the "spices" of a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God." Phillip. 4:18.

When the stormy winds have ceased to blow, and have fulfilled His Word, by purging,may we be able to say, "Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits." S.O.S. 5:16.May He then say to us, "Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee." S.O.S. 4:7.