SPECIAL ONES

A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.
Song of Solomon 1:13

This verse in Solomon’s song speaks to us about suffering and it’s connection to intimacy with God. Christ came to bring His purchased sons and daughters into a relationship that He had enjoyed with His Father from eternity. In John’s account of the Lord’s prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus spoke of an eternal intimacy that He had enjoyed with His Father. He was asking the Father to bring us into that same life of intimacy. In the same prayer Jesus committed Himself to fulfill the will of God. “Let this cup (of suffering) pass from Me if it is possible, nevertheless not My will but Your will”. Here the connection is made between suffering and this life of close fellowship with God, that is what is meant by Solomon’s bundle of myrrh. Actually, Jesus is talking about the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Spirit. That is the source of this intimacy, the anointing, Solomon’s bundle of myrrh.

“He is a bundle of myrrh for preservation-not loose myrrh to be dropped on the floor or trodden on, but myrrh tied up, myrrh to be stored in a casket. We must value him as our best treasure; we must prize his words and his ordinances; and we must keep our thoughts of him and knowledge of him as under lock and key, lest the devil should steal anything from us. Moreover, Jesus is a bundle of myrrh for speciality. The emblem suggests the idea of distinguishing, discriminating grace. From before the foundation of the world, he was set apart for his people; and he gives forth his perfume only to those who understand how to enter into communion with him, to have close dealings with him. Oh! blessed people whom the Lord hath admitted into his secrets, and for whom he sets himself apart. Oh! choice and happy who are thus made to say, A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.”

This bundle of myrrh is our greatest treasure in this life. Greater than career accomplishments, better than possessions, even more special that our friends and even our families. As Edwards used to say, these are but shadows, God is the substance.
This bundle of myrrh is not for everyone, not everyone even wants it. It is reserved for His special ones, those He has known from before the foundations of this creation. He has set you apart for a purpose, to know and enjoy Him. This myrrh is the secret passage. It is the fragrance that flows from the cross, into the empty tomb, it blows through the upper room, and it finally finds its resting place seated in heavenly places with Christ on His throne.
For most, Christ and Christianity are either a formula or a routine. For those He has set apart, it is joy unspeakable and full of Glory.