We have been going through Jonathan Cahn's "The Book Of Mysteries" for our Wednesday night services at The Spoken Word Church. We have learned so very much by hearing about the meanings of some of these Hebrew words! Today I want to share a portion of one of these lessons. From Day 216 entitled "Dodekha: The Divine Loves":
The Scriptures covered here are Psalm 63:3-6; Song of Solomon 1:2; Ephesians 3:18-19.
Psalm 63:3 Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You. 4 So will I bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name. 5 My whole being shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips 6 When I remember You upon my bed and meditate on You in the night watches.
Song of Solomon 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! [she cries. Then, realizing that Solomon has arrived and has heard her speech, she turns to him and adds] For your love is better than wine!
Ephesians 3:18 That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; 19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!
Speaking of the verse from the Song of Solomon:
"Yes, and something more than that. Behind the translation is a revelation one can only find in the original language. The Hebrew reads this way: Kee tovim dodekha me yayin. It is translated as 'Your love is better than wine.' But in the original language, the bride says, 'Your dodekha is better than wine."
"And what does dodekha mean?"
"Not 'your love.' Dodekha means your loves ... 'Your loves are better than wine.' What does that reveal?"
"The love of God is not just the love of God ... but the loves of God."
"Dodekha means that God loves you so much that it can't even be described or contained without breaking out of the language. It means that the word love cannot adequately express it. It means that God doesn't just have love for you, but many loves. When you need His mercy, He loves you with a merciful love. When you need His strength, He loves you with an encouraging love. When you've been wounded, He loves you with a tender love. When you need the love of a friend, He loves you as a friend. When you need to be lifted up in His arms, He loves you with the compassion of a loving Father. His love for you is many. He loves you today, not with yesterday's love, but with a love for today, a love that is new every morning. Therefore, you must seek not only to know the love of God, but to know the loves of God. You can never rest on knowing yesterday's love or the love you have known before. You must seek each day to know the loves He has for you, the new love, the fresh love, the surprising love, the never-ending love. It is that love, His love, that is better, much better, than any earthly joy ... for His loves are better than wine."
The Mission: Seek this day to know not only the love but the loves of God - the always new and never-ending loves of your Beloved for you.
Do you see how powerful that is? There are more than 365 of these lessons! I highly recommend this book for your personal study or for group study! As you meditate on the many wonderful LOVES of our God of LOVES, here is Hillsong Worship with "Love So Great":
Shalom in Him!
