I commend the bulletin article
to you again. I thought I'd begin by reading
Henry Mayan's article in the front. It's only short. And he begins with these words
from Mark 15 verse 9. It's on the first page of your
bulletin. He says, Go home and tell your friends, go home to
your friends and tell them how great things the Lord has done
for you. The Lord has shown great mercy
to this poor sinner, setting him free from demons and sin. Now he tells him to go home to
his family and friends and to be the Lord's witness. Do not
go home and begin to preach. Do not go home and take up the
great doctrines of grace and expound them. Do not go home
and strive to bring everyone to your views and beliefs. Do not go home and condemn all
who do not see what you see. Go home and tell them what great
things the Lord has done for you. Not what great things you
have read or heard, but what great things you have experienced. This is the way to begin our
witnessing. There is never a more interesting
story than the story a person has experienced, lived and felt. If you would really interest
others and get their attention, tell them what great things the
Lord has done in you and for you. Notice the Lord said, tell
them what great things the Lord has done. It's a story of free
grace. not what we did, willed or gave,
but what He did for us by His own free, sovereign, undeserved
love. We will not convince them nor
change them any more than another man could convert us, but the
Lord who did great things for us can do great things for them. if he is so pleased to use the
faithful witness of those who go and tell what great things
the Lord has done for them." That echoes the words of the
Shulamite in the Song of Solomon. Last week we looked at assurance,
didn't we? She speaks And she speaks at
last and she says these great words, I am my beloved's and
his desire is towards me. She spoke of him being hers and
hers being him and he spoke of his great love for her. And in these verses from verse
7 down to 13, we have her prayer. Let's read her prayer. She knows
what it is to be separated from Him. She knows what it is to
be separated by her sins from His fellowship. And now that
she is reassured of his love for her, she issues this invitation
in her prayer. She says, come my beloved, let
us go forth into the field, let us lodge in the villages, let
us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine flourish,
whether the tender grape appear and the pomegranates bud forth.
There I will give thee my loves. The mandrakes give a smell, and
at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old,
which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. Why don't we pray as the Lord
leads us into her prayer. Our Heavenly Father, we do. pray
that we would be allowed by your grace to see the glories of the
redeeming love of your blessed son, that we might see his sacrifice
with clarity, that we might come away from this time, Heavenly
Father, knowing that we belong to him and knowing that his heart's
desire is for us. blessed assurance, sweet rest. We pray, Heavenly Father, that
you would grant us that, and that we might be able to enter
in to the Shulmites' prayer, and may it be our prayer Heavenly
Father, we have seen that her experiences are so much like
our experiences, and we praise you, Heavenly Father, for the
preserving love, that we are kept, your people are kept and
preserved, kept from ourselves and kept from this world. May
we find ourselves, Heavenly Father, abiding with Him and Him abiding
with us this day and forevermore. We pray your blessing on your
word, Heavenly Father, that you might speak, speak through this
vessel of clay, speak to the hearts of your people. We pray
these things for the glory of your dear and precious Son, our
Lord Jesus. Amen. Christian love seeks fellowship
with the Lord. Christian love seeks fellowship
with the Lord's people. You see, his delights are her
delights. And her prayer is really just
echoing the prayer, the call that he made to her. He calls
her to come away and she calls to him, come my beloved. In chapter 3 verse 4 she says,
she found him She held him and then she brought him into her
mother's house. She brought him to a place, a
place of comfort, a place of fellowship, a place of communion. So her last words to these daughters
of Jerusalem was, tell him that I am sick with love. I'm sick with love. I didn't
know how much I loved him until I'd experienced his absence because
of my wicked rebellion." That's the question, isn't it? The question
that he asked Peter is the question he asked us. Do you love him? Do you love him? Does your heart
burn with love for him? Are you offended when he is spoken
of in ways that dishonour him? And she prays. and I trust it's our prayer."
She prays, and you'll see there's a progression of it, isn't there?
She prays, come. She prays initially, let's go
forth into the field. Then she's not just content to
go forth into the field, she says, let us lodge, let us abide
in the villages. But there's a purpose to it,
isn't it? She wants to be there in the villages near the vineyards,
let us get up early. to the vineyards to see, let
us get up early, let's go into the field, into the villages,
let us be there so we can get up early, let us see. She wants to see if the vine
flourish, whether the tender grapes appear, whether the pomegranates
bud forth. And she has a purpose in it all,
isn't it? There's a motive behind her prayer. She knows what it
is not to have communion. She knows what it is to be absent
from His love. And she says at the end of verse
12, there I will give you my loves. As I said earlier, he
again and again in Song of Solomon in chapter 2 verses 10 and 13
and chapter 4 verse 8, he calls to her again and again, he says,
come away, come away, come away, come away with me, come away
from the entanglements of this world, come away from the enticements
of sin, come away. You see, God has now brought
her to a place of prayer and she echoes his words, doesn't
she? She says to him, come, my beloved,
let us go forth into the field. Now God's sovereignty doesn't
make prayer an unnecessary thing. God's sovereignty and God's promises
make prayer a delightful thing. It's one of the emblems of conversion,
isn't it? You see, Paul, a Pharisee, had
spent all of that time in his Jewish religion and he prayed
day in and day out for 30 odd years or more, prayed and prayed
and prayed. And what's Ananias told? He says,
Behold he prays. For the first time in his life
he prayed. He'd said prayers, thousands
and thousands of prayers, prayers that were doctrinally correct,
prayers that were echoing words in this book of God, and he hadn't
prayed. He hadn't prayed at all. Ask,
says the Lord. Seek, and you will find. Knock,
and the door will open. God delights in prayer. Ask, open your mouth wide. She doesn't want now to be separated
from him. She knows what separation is.
She knows what she's been through. She doesn't want to be separated
from him, nor does she want to perform any task without his
presence. She just wants to be with him.
She just wants to be with him. A prayer that I pray often for
us as a church is the prayer that Moses echoed in Exodus 33.15. He says, if your presence, Lord,
if your presence doesn't go with me, carry us not up from here. If this is not about you, the
eternal, sovereign, almighty God that we must If this is not
a faithful witness to your dear and precious Son, the Lord Jesus
Christ, don't let us move another muscle. Don't let us go another
step beyond here. God delights in the prayers of
His people. He delights in the presence of
His people. You see, it's His desire. I am
my beloved's, she's been aware that his desire is toward me,
his desire is for me." So that's assurance, isn't it? We talked
about assurance last week. Assurance is not talking about
assurance. Assurance is found in talking
about the Lord Jesus and talking about what He's done. We talk
about Him. We talk about Him and His great
redemption, and His great love, and His great sin-bearing death. And we talk about Him as that
perfect Saviour who was that substitute. And we talk about
Him who was perfectly successful. He came with a purpose and He
achieved His purpose. So you cannot worship a God who
is not sovereign. You cannot worship a God who
is not successful. You can have no assurance if
your God is trying to do something. and something of my hands, something
of my will and something of my worth is going to make his work
successful. He's a perfectly successful shepherd-saviour. That's what church is about,
isn't it? To declare his glory, to declare his deity, to declare
his perfect acceptance before God. and our peace and rest in
Him. There's a story that I've often
wanted to tell you that I heard from one of our long gone friends
in America. He tells a story in the old days
of the West, the American people were moving West and West and
West and they had their wagon trains, you may have seen the
movies, their little wagon trains and they'd be a collection of
families together going out into this unknown, hostile, often
wilderness. And there is this little group
of families in their little wagon train And they see in the distance
in these plains where there are no trees, just plains in America
for hundreds and hundreds of miles, and they see this huge
fire coming towards them. And it's coming directly in their
path. And they cannot escape to the
right or to the left. There is no way of escape. And what the men did, they had
great presence of mind, what they did is they went behind
them and they burnt out a great big area right behind them. And then they took their little
wagons and they put their wagons in the middle of the burnt out
area. And the story's told of a little
boy, maybe like Noah, sitting in his dad's lap, and he trembles
as he sees this gigantic firestorm coming straight towards him.
And he's trembling and his father turns to him and he says, the
fire cannot burn twice in the same place, my son. You'll feel
the smoke and you'll see the heat, but the fire won't burn
twice. You see the fire of God's wrath.
was fully expended for all of the sins of all of God's people
in His Son on the cross. And it can't burn twice in the
same place. That's assurance and that's rest. We'll feel the heat, we'll feel
the wind and we'll see the torment. But if we're in that place, That's
what you long for, for people you love, isn't it? They will abide. They will find
themselves resting in that place. The fire can't burn twice. The remarkable thing about the
sacrifice of the Lord Jesus is that the Lord Jesus consumed
the fire of God's wrath in his sacrifice and he came out the
other end. What a remarkable Saviour. Why
can He deal with her? Why can He come to she who is
openly sinful and openly abusive, contemptuous almost, of the greatest
love ever? It's because there is no sin. It's gone, brothers and sisters.
The Lord Jesus has consumed the fire of God's wrath and all of
his people were in him at that time. We were crucified with
Christ. That's the place of rest. That's
the place of assurance. That's why he has done so much. He's done so many remarkable
things that we find absence from Him who has done that is grievous. What does she say? She says,
I'm sick. Tell Him I'm sick with love.
I'm overcome by His love. I'm overcome by my love for him,
and I'm overcome by the fact that I might be able to express
it to other people, but I can't express it to him. And he comes,
as we've seen, and he speaks the most beautiful words. And
he speaks words about his work in her life. That is the fruit. That is the fruit. And he has promised fruitfulness,
isn't he? He says that's why she can ask
with confident expectation. Why does she say, come and let's
go and see this place of fruitfulness? Fruit in the vineyards and fruit
of the grapes and fruit of the pomegranates. She's got a promise
for him. Verse 8, chapter 7. He said,
I will go up to the palm tree. I will take hold of the boughs
thereof. And your breasts shall be as
clusters of the vine and the smell of your nose like apples. So he's actually promised, hasn't
he? He's promised to come, he's promised to hold, he's promised
to bring fruitfulness, the fruitfulness of his work, the fruitfulness
of his finished work to her. So she can say, come my beloved,
let us. See now she doesn't want to be
separated. Just listen to how many times she says it. She says,
let us go, let us lodge, let us get up early, let us see,
let us see where the vines, let us see where the tender grapes,
let us see the pomegranates. Let us. It's a great word, isn't
it? It's a great word of prayer.
Not let me do something, but let us do it together. Let us. She doesn't want to be
separated from him. She can't bear, and she knows
she can't bear fruit, and nor can she delight in it without
him being the fruit bearer. Love longs for its mate. It longs for the one it's separated
from. I can't speak for others. But in the course of the last
few years, I've been separated from Lisa for sometimes weeks
at a time. And I find myself, as the days
get closer, I find myself wandering around the house and tidying
things and organizing things. And then as the hours approach,
I start looking out the windows. At ridiculous times, there's
no sign of her coming. I know she's not coming, but
I look out the windows and I start looking. We long, don't we? We long for the company of those
we love. She knows. She knows the barrenness
of separation from Him. The clearer views of the Lord
Jesus Christ we have, the more we desire His company, the more
the absence of His company brings us grief. And so we'll just look
briefly. That's the context, isn't it?
A beautiful picture of love enjoined again. As the Lord Jesus says
in John 12, this remarkable promise is where I am There you will
be also. What a remarkable promise. When
he says, I'll never leave you nor forsake you, in fact he says,
I will never, never, never, never leave you nor forsake you. I'm
not adding extra words, that's just what the text says, never,
never. He can't leave. So she says, let's go forth. into the field. Let's go together
into the field. The field, of course, can mean
many things, but this is a particular field, isn't it? The field in
Matthew 13, the parable there, describes as clearly as any other
short picture in all of the scriptures. It describes God's purposes in
all of this world. God has sown the good seed of
the Gospel, the good seed of His children, scattered them
throughout this world and scattered them throughout time. And then
the husbandmen come and they find tares growing in amongst
the wheat and God says, Let them both grow together until the
harvest." The world is the field. God's children are planted in
that field, scattered throughout time, from Adam and Eve and Abel,
scattered throughout time and throughout this world until the
very last one has been planted by the Lord. And then the harvest
will come. And it's not for us to do the
separating in that parable in Matthew 13. His job will do it. He'll have no problem sorting
out wheat from tares. We don't have a clue who they
are. So we best not even try. He'll do it. He's promised. So
it can be everywhere, anywhere, at all times. It is in this place. It's a place
where she wants to be alone with him. When Isaac was waiting,
waiting and waiting for his Abraham's servant to bring back his bride,
where was he? He was out in a field meditating,
praying, talking to the Lord. And Jonathan and David, when
they wanted to have time together, they went out into the field
that they could commune with each other. It's a place where
people can speak what's in their heart. It's a place where they
can have uninterrupted communion. It's the place, of course, where
the Gospel has been spread. the Gospel of the glory of the
grace of God in the face of the Lord Jesus has been spread out
into that field. And so to go out into that field
is to go out with a sense of expectation that His Gospel will
have its effect. When the Jerusalem church suffered
that persecution after the death of Stephen, the church was scattered.
And they were scattered from Jerusalem and where did they
go? They had to go out into the villages
and the towns. And what do we find in Acts 10?
We find that the church has blossomed in all sorts of places. God's
church is planted in this field. And she wants to stay somewhere. She goes out into the field.
She says, let's lodge in the villages. in the villages, not
in the cities, away from the hustle and bustle in this world
with all of its overwhelming cares. And all of those things
just crowd out communion with God. I can't speak for you but
I can speak for myself. It is shocking, it is shocking
to me how something ridiculously trivial can interfere with my
communion with God. In fact everything we see with
our eyes here is going to be destroyed. Everything we build
is going to be destroyed. God has promised and yet we find
ourselves, I find myself, I'll just speak for myself, I find
myself so often caught up in stuff that is absolutely trivial. She wants to lodge. in the villages. That's the purpose of going out.
As David said in Psalm 55, he says, Oh, that I had wings like
a dove, for then I would flee away and be at rest. Lo, then I would wander far off
and remain, or lodge in the wilderness. She wants to go to these villages. because she wants to have a place
where she can be in communion with Him, where she can say to
Him, let us abide together. I love the story in John chapter
4 of the Lord Jesus going to that child of His, that member
of his bride, loved from all eternity, married to five men,
living now in an adulterous relationship. And he goes to her and her eyes
are opened to see who he is. She acknowledges that he is the
Messiah. And then what does she do? She
immediately goes back to the town and she tells others, and
many of the Samaritans believed and they came to him and they
besought him that he would tarry with them. And he stayed. He stayed in a Samaritan village. He abided there, he lodged there
for two days. She wants to be in the villages,
she wants to go forth into the field, to be in the villages,
because she wants to be close to the vineyards. The next word
she says is, we're going out there, this is all purposeful,
isn't it? Let us, let us get up early. If he's lying all night
between her breasts, she says, in 1.13. She desires His company
throughout all the night, but also she desires His company
in the morning. She wants to make the first things
of the day about the first, the preeminent, the one thing needful. is Him and witnessing His work. Whom have I in heaven but You? There is nothing on earth that
I desire beside You. She wants to get up early, she
wants to make it the first and preeminent thing of the day.
She wants to begin as the sun rises to chase away the darkness
of the night. She wants to begin with an expectation
of fruitfulness and success. She wants to see the vineyards
and the fruitfulness of the vineyards with the first of the sun's rays
upon them. To get up early may be also to
mean that in a most seasonable time, at the right and proper
time, she wants to get up early. She wants to go to the vineyards, vineyards like the gardens that
he describes so often in Song of Solomon. The vineyards are
descriptive of his churches, aren't they? The vineyards, as
we see in the Gospel narratives, are enclosed and fenced and guarded
and watered and nurtured and cared for. As we saw with the
other vineyards, they're separated, aren't they? They're separated
from the world and they're planted with a variety of fruitful vines
and they're watered every moment by the Lord Jesus. The fencing of them is by His
almighty power. And all of this, all of the tending
of them, is to increase their fruitfulness. She says of him
in verse 14 of chapter 1, she says, My beloved is unto me as
a cluster of campfire in the vineyards of Engedi, a place
of fruitfulness. The vineyards of Engedi I like
that place called Eshkol, when the spies went into the land. They were sent into the land
at the time of the first fruits of the grape harvest. You can
read the story in Numbers 13, 23 to 25. And they were to bring
back some fruit of the land. And they brought back pomegranates
and figs and grapes. And the cluster of grapes, if
you remember, was so big that two men carried this cluster
on two poles. And the Hebrew words involved
are beautiful and remarkable. They called the place of this
amazing fruitfulness, Eshkol. As she says, the word comes from
the word that she says about him as a cluster of campfire. Eshkol means man. Kopha is cluster. But it means something else,
something more. It means cluster of atonement. That's what they brought back
from that land. They were told it was a fruitful
land. They brought back evidences of His promises, His promises
in fruitfulness. See, all fruitfulness, all these
clusters, this cluster, all the fruitfulness that we see in these
verses and throughout Song of Solomon, all fruitfulness comes
from the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. Which is why we
must make a big deal of it, brothers and sisters. We must make a big
deal of the fact that we must preach Lord giving us grace and
breath to do so. We must preach particular redemption
and we must, by His grace, stand against those who say that his
redemption, his death on the cross, was merely an offer, was
merely the provision of a sufficiency if man will do something. That's not the fruit. there's
a cluster of this vine, this cluster of campfire. You see, you can receive no blessing
from the Lord except it be the purchase of His blood. Every
spiritual blessing that ever comes to us comes as a blood-bought
blessing. All of your acceptance is a blood-bought
acceptance. All of your entrance, your joyous
entrance into Heaven is because His blood has gone there. See, His presence with her and
her restoration to communion with Him is a sign of His blood-bought
acceptance of her. In that death, as we've said
so often, He dealt with her sin perfectly and completely. Nothing between my soul and my
Saviour. Nothing at all. That's why this prayer is love's
response, isn't it, to what she said, I am my Beloved's. she
and him are united in marriage. And his desire, as we saw last
week, he's a God who has desires and because he's sovereign he
fulfills his desires. He says, come let us, doesn't
he, loves responses, let us go forth, let us go to the field,
let us lodge in the villages, let us get up early, let us see. Let us see, now that we've come
to these vineyards, let us see if the vines flourish. In chapter 6 she's asked, where
is he? What is he to you and where is
he? And she knows where he's gone.
He's in the same place He always is. He's gone down into His garden
and now we see Her desire for them to be together. Let us see,
She said, if the vines flourish and your minds possibly, no doubt,
have gone to John chapter 15. Why don't we turn there and just
look at some of these remarkable words of the Lord Jesus to His
disciples. See vines are weak in themselves,
so they require support. Vines are unproductive in themselves
and they require nourishment from another. Vines are uncontrolled
and by nature in that uncontrolled state they are unproductive and
they need pruning to flourish. and we see those things here
in John chapter 15, I am the true vine and my father is the
husbandman. Every branch in me that bears
not fruit he takes away and every branch that bears fruit he purges
it that it may bring forth more fruit. Now you are clean through
the word which I have spoken to you. abide in me." What a
beautiful word, to come and live and remain. And I in you, as
a branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the
vine, no more can you except you abide in me. I am the vine,
you are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in
him, the same bringeth forth much fruit." And then these great
words. These great, great words, if
God would plant them on our hearts, for without Me you can do nothing. If a man abide not in Me, he
is cast forth as a branch and is withered, and men gather them
and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide
in Me and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will,
and it shall be done unto you. Herein is My Father glorified,
that you bear much fruit, so shall you be My disciples. As the Father has loved Me, So
have I loved you, continue in my love. He is the vine, we are
the branches. Those branches of his planting,
those branches in his vineyard, those branches that are husbanded,
are cared for and nurtured by the Father, are branches that
are going to suffer as she suffered, but they'll bear the fruit like
she has borne fruit. She knows what it is to be separated
from him. She knows what it is to experience
something of the horribleness of her sin. And yet in that time
of distressing, what is her fruit? Tell him, I'm sick. with love. Give me an opportunity. What
is he to you? I'll tell you what he is." And
she starts by talking about how he's the chief among 10,000. And she goes from head to foot
and says, he's altogether lovely. If I haven't mentioned enough,
that final phrase I've covered all. And she continues to look
to him. And then he comes and speaks
amazing words of comfort and consolation. Let us see if this
vine flourishes. Let's go together and bear witness
of the faithfulness of the Father's planting, the faithfulness of
the Son, the faithfulness of God the Father in His pruning
and His nurturing. the faithfulness of God the Holy
Spirit in applying those things in the hearts of his people.
To take these words, the words that declare who he is, and cause
them to bud forth out of something that looks dead. You've driven
past the vineyards here, and you drive past in the wintertime,
and they just look like sticks. Sticks twirl around bits of wire,
hopeless looking and dead looking. And yet, because of their attachment to
the root, Because of their attachment to the vine, at the time, at
that appropriate time, they bring forth, they bud. And she comes
to see, she says, let us see them. And she says, let us see
whether the tender grapes appear or whether the flowers of the
grape has opened itself. It could be a reference to young
converse, close to the pruning cuff. like lambs or newborn babes. It also is a picture of the fact
that the Lord Jesus esteems small things. Children are precious
in His sight. He esteems small things. Believers
are childlike in faith and hope and love. The Lord Jesus says,
unless you come As a child, you cannot enter into the Kingdom
of God. A child dependent and not independent. A child simply trusting. A child simply accepting. A child needing the pure milk
of the Word. She wants to come, come to this
vineyard of the Lord's planting, come and see the vines flourishing,
come and see the tender grapes, and come and see the pomegranates. The pomegranates, as we saw earlier
in our studies in Song of Solomon, the pomegranates are that fruit
that adorn the high priest's robe. They are red and they bleed
juice when they are cut. And inside that hard, protecting,
preserving exterior is this delightful fruit that bursts forth. And it's segmented inside, isn't
it? And each segment, inside each
segment, are these individually tied, packed together little
pieces of fruit. And every piece of fruit takes
its shape. It's preserved on the outside,
then preserved in segmented areas with skins in between. And then
every piece of fruit takes its shape from the pieces of fruit
around it. It's a beautiful picture in God's
creation of His Church. takes its shape from its neighbor. Each piece is red. Each piece contains a seed. It contains life within it. Each piece is red. Blood red. Blood bought. and so tightly joined together
that nothing else fits in there. What a beautiful picture the
pomegranate is of the Church. And she says in Chapter 4, verse
13, my plants are an orchard of pomegranates, an orchard of
these fruit which the high priest took with him to do his work
in the Holy of Holies. And she has a motive. She has
a motive for going, for calling him in prayer to come with her,
to come let us go together, to come let us abide together, to
come let us see the fruitfulness of your activities, her beloved. She says, She makes a promise. She says, there I will give you
my loves. He says of her, in 4 verse 10,
he says, how fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse. How much better is your love
than wine. As I said earlier, her message
to him in her anguish was tell him that I am sick with love. It's interesting that it's in
the plural, isn't it? There I will give thee my loves. She'll give him again back the things
in him that cause her such extraordinary delight. She'll give him, in
confession, won't she, the glories of who he is, the perfections
of his being, the perfections of his character. what he has
done, what he has purchased. When she's asked to describe
him, she describes him as white and ruddy, holey and bloodstained. She talks about his head, she's
talking about his sovereignty. She talks about his eyes, his
eyes that see everything and see perfectly. She loves the
fact that he's sovereign. She loves the fact that he sees
all that she is and loves her beautifully. His lips are like
lilies, she loves the words that he speaks to her, dropping sweet-smelling
myrrh, and that myrrh is a sign of suffering, a sign of his cross. His hands that hold her are gold
rings, his legs He stands solid as a pillar of marble set on
foundations. She says, this is my beloved.
She says, his mouth. That with which he communicates
his love is mostly, oh, he's altogether lovely. This is my beloved. I am my beloved's
and my beloved is mine." And she knows where he is. He feeds
among the lilies and now that she's got him, she's got fellowship
with him again, she says, let us go together. Let us be together. Let us go amongst your people. That's where we have fellowship
together. That's where we see your productiveness,
your fruitfulness. That's where we see your faithfulness
to your promises. As you take your people through
extraordinarily difficult times, and then in the midst of those
difficulties, you remind them of your sovereignty. You remind
them of covenantal, everlasting, unchanging love. You remind them
of a perfect sin-bearing death. You remind them that it is His
promised task to take these blood-bought ones and present them delightfully
before His Father, holy and spotless, all fair, all beautiful. What a Saviour! What a fellowship
with the Saviour. No wonder she prays. Is that
a prayer that echoes something of the prayer of your hearts,
brothers and sisters? That's the prayer of the Church
to Her Beloved. Let it be our prayer. Let us
find with Her the delightful answer to it. Let's pray.