The Right Conditions

Song of Songs 7:10-12 - I belong to my love, and his desire is for me. Come, my lover, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages. Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love (NIV).


The right conditions allows for the enjoyment that filled of contentment as it allows for cherished moments to be treasured forever; when the relationship is gone. See, enjoyment without contentment leaves you empty. Yet, we gain the prevalent, immediate gratification which comes from the physical intimacy but it, like most facades in life, leaves us wanting after it is over. All because we missed the cues, the nuances, and silent messages of the body language, in order to fulfilled our humanly need. Now, before we go on, I am not saying the physical intimacy is wrong, or inappropriate, I am concluding without the right conditions, it is empty and worthless. See our fleshly desires, and human logic keeps us from seeing, this truth - birds of a feather flock together, or should I say, what does godly have to do with ungodly? God has given us instructions in nature we, man, in our infinite ability to reason, and think, have gotten lost, in what we think is right, or perfect or best. While ignoring the fundamental truth, it is about timing, and timing lets each of us know the conditions are right.

In the verses, you see the there is a longing and desire to come together, but only if, the conditions are right. We longer wait for the right conditions; we do what makes us feel good, and is right to us. We consummate physical relationships, for the same reasons we give our seal of approval to business deals and new promotion – self and what man thinks is a good. Like with physical intimacy, we do not think about future implications of our present actions which have lasting and some times, detrimental consequences lingering long past the act. We are emotional people who find comfort in the twins - insecurity and man’s approval is vital to our standing. We forget and ignore the hallow truth that changes lives, instead our lens we see life through, and dictates our relational connections, for all aspect of our lives, and it is flawed. However, if we wait for the right conditions to consummate and validate, all relational connections, and then we would have less of rattled lives. We would have less unrest, a more forgiving heart; bitterness would be shunned, rather than embraced as a badge of honor, and confidence in who God is, would increase, dramatically. We no longer hear ourselves saying those old clichés that say more about the speaker, than it does about the issue spoke of – it does not matter, it is no big deal, and I did not think about it (consequence and implications). Therefore, we would reduce the number of times we ask God these questions – How did I get here? …Why is this happening to me?...What did I ever to do to desires this?...Why don’t the get?...When the truth lies in ‘self-focused’ mindset, and the refusal to do the unpopular and the difficult. Waiting for the right conditions before acting, according to God, demonstrate and illustrate our behavior, obedience, what words could never teach or explain. LORD is – the Priest (minister to the needs), the Prophet (forecaster for our future) and the King (sovereign ruler) of my life. This is what waiting on the right conditions does for us in love, and in living life.