HIS CHEEKS AND LIPS

HIS CHEEKS AND LIPS

“His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh”, the Shulamite continues in her adoration in verse 13 of Chapter 5 in the Song of Songs. The Roman soldiers spat in the face of Jesus and slapped Him in the face (Matt.26: 67). Jesus gave His cheeks to those who plucked off the hair and He did not hide His face from shame and spitting. The cheeks of the Crucified Jesus grew red and bled after slapping and plucking of hair from His cheeks. Prophet Isaiah prophesied in his book (Ch.53: 2) that He had no form or comeliness that we should look at Him and no beauty that we should desire Him. But, the same face of Jesus with His cheeks and lips, after resurrection from the dead, so transformed that even His own disciples failed to recognize Him. Now the cheeks of the resurrected and glorified Christ are as a bed of spices. His face now radiates the glory and the love of the Father to the whole world like the bed of spices and the sweet flowers radiate their fragrance. The God of the Old Testament Who commanded Moses that His face should not be seen has become visible in Christ Jesus. Jesus said to His disciple Philip, “Any one who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say then, Show us the Father?” (Jn.14: 9).

His lips like lilies drop sweet smelling myrrh. You may smell the fragrance of God’s holiness and righteousness as you meditate on the Word of God. Jesus opened His lips and gave the fragrant words of God to the people of Israel who were in bondage to the Roman Empire. Today the Spirit of Christ Jesus opens and fills our heart with the fragrance of God’s holiness and righteousness as we mediate on His written word.

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