Song of Solomon 2:4-5 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

Have you ever eaten too much of a food you love? As much as I love fried clams I overdo it when the rare opportunity comes my way. I eat myself sick. That doesn’t stop me from loving fried clams.

These verses are my feeble attempt at trying to explain what is happening to me this week. I am at the end of my devotionals about my Emmaus Walk 1807. I have no more side notes. I have nothing else the Lord impressed upon me about that experience. It has been a good week but it is time to move on. As much as I would love to maintain this high, I cannot.

We express ourselves as being full of His love, but in truth most of us are not. His love is not ours to keep and cherish within ourselves. It is meant to be shared, just as I have shared my experience. Every experience has its limits, just like my love of clams. After too much consumption you just cannot take it anymore.

Luke 24:28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.

Hidden here within the Emmaus story line is this connective tissue, Jesus was ready to move on. His love is tireless. I am the Cup, HisCup, I get poured out and need to be refilled. I am not tireless, I get tired. I can be emptied and require refilling. I’ve exhausted this theme and the Lord has moved on.

SoS 2:9-10 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice. My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

I am here Lord, where are we going today?

Genesis 3:9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

Think closely on this, God knows all things, therefor when He called out to Adam it was not for His information, it was to make Adam think. Here yet again is another simple example from walk 1807. When asked during a talk, “Where are you?” the most common response was a blank stare. Each man did an instant inventory of himself and had to search deep for a right answer.

I watched as man after man confessed that they were not where they thought they should be in their walk with Christ. While I praise God for the awakening within their souls for a thirst for that water, I was also at the same time saddened by the burden of the thought that they thought less of themselves than what they should. They were exactly where God needed them at the moment that God needed them to hear what God had to say to them. They were positioned perfectly.

So often we look around us and see men that have been on their walk longer and have more experience, more wisdom, more scriptural knowledge and while that is true, they miss out on the most important issue about their own walk. They are in Christ. As men we tend to look at position as a vantage point. When we look at others as having an advantage over us, then we start placing emotional issue where they do not belong. Envy and strife are born out of that vision of self.

Look at the love in the eyes of a new mother as she holds that child for the first time since receiving that child into this world. Up until that moment that child was as close as it will ever be to the mother, attached, part of her, life in her. Why can’t we see ourselves as in Christ the same way, that we will never be any closer to Christ than when we are IN CHRIST?

When we look at what we do as being more important than where we are, we lose that sense of closeness.