Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
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WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BED?
I have always dreamed of a lilac (lavender) bedroom. I love this color, especially because it was my mother’s favorite color. It’s lovely to have a memory of your mother, isn’t it? At last we painted our bedroom this color. I have lovely lavender flowers draping around the canopy over our bed and my husband and I both love it.My bedspread is white which matches beautifully, purchased for us by our lovely daughter, Pearl (THM). I wonder what color your eiderdown is. If you happen to have a green one, you’d be quite biblical although it wouldn’t match our bedroom.
I was reading Song of Solomon 1:16 again the other day. The bride in Song of Songs says to the Bridegroom: “Our bed is green.” The Hebrew word means to be “verdant.” That means a vivid green. It reminds me of my home country of New Zealand where everything is so green. Sometimes the grass looks luminous green.
My fellow New Zealanders, you wouldn’t notice this because you take it for granted. But often when I return to New Zealand and go into a supermarket, I am shocked at the greenness of the vegetables. The richness of the green is dazzling.
But this word also means “flourishing.” This book of the Bible can also be read as the relationship of the husband and wife. And what is our bed to be like? It should be FLOURISHING. Never stagnant, cold, or boring. Nothing of God is stagnant. It is always lifegiving, growing, and flourishing.
If we are in Christ, this should be our experience in every facet of life. And yes, even in the bedroom, and in the bed. We spend a good part of our life in bed and so we should make it a delightful place.
Never let your bed relationship become dead and non-existent. Foster it. Think of ways to keep it beautiful. Life-giving. Intoxicating. Satiating. Captivating. Always fresh.
You may not have a green bedspread but seek to make your “bed” life-giving green and flourishing.
This is Bible language (Proverbs 5:15-19).
Be blessed all day and night,
Nancy Campbell
Hebrew word ra’anan: Psalm 52:8; 92:10, 12-14; Song of Songs 1:16; Jeremiah 17:7, 8; and Hosea 14:8.
Hebrew word parach: Psalm 72:7; 92:12, 13; Proverbs 14:11; 66:14; and Ezekiel 17:24; and Hosea 14:5.
