CLUSTER OF CAMPHIRE

CLUSTER OF CAMPHIRE

“My beloved is unto me a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi”, continues the bride in verse 14 of Chapter 1 of the Song of Songs, recollecting the peculiar personality of King Solomon. The vineyards of Engedi were famed for its fragrant shrubs. The true disciples of Christ Jesus are the vineyards of Engedi and in their midst blossoms a cluster of henna flowers (camphire), that is Jesus, looking beautiful. Such disciples, the vineyards of Engedi, through their personal life, propagate the savor of the knowledge of Christ everywhere (II Cor. 2:14).The backsliding bride is attracted towards the fragrant vineyards and finds her beloved as “a cluster of camphire”. What matters to her here is only the cluster of camphire, and not the vineyards. In the marvelous Person of Jesus is a cluster of numerous traits, which make Him the cluster of camphire.

Today there are many children of God like the bride in the Song of Solomon who search the vineyards of Engedi for the cluster of camphire, that is the entire Personality of Jesus revealed in fullness. Dear minister of God, do you present Jesus as a cluster of camphire to a backsliding child of God who is desperate on account of losing the presence of God? In other words, does your message carry the sweet savor of His knowledge, which means the knowledge of all His traits? Your message must reveal the entire Personality of Jesus, and not a part of His Personality. Remember that Jesus is like a cluster of many henna flowers. For example, if you lay over-emphasis only on the divine wrath without preaching His long suffering or His other many traits, your message does not carry the full savor of the knowledge of Christ.

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