Not because I am looking for it but it keeps just popping in other scriptures until I pay attention 😀
Yesterday that word was; better.
Better doesn't just mean nice or improved, it means what is now present is of greater worth, greater value, greater quality than what was there before. Better assumes something came first. And something else later surpassed it.
Several scriptures popped but these three stayed with me;
✨ It is better to live on the corner of a rooftop than with a quarrelsome wife. — Proverbs 21:9
✨ The end of a matter is better than its beginning. — Ecclesiastes 7:8
✨ Christ has become the guarantor of a better covenant, established on better promises. — Hebrews 7:22
The groom in Proverbs chose the rooftop. That corner of the house that is exposed and uncomfortable. But he stayed. He didn't pack his things and walk out completely he just moved to where the peace was and waited.
His was the kind of love that doesn't leave. The kind that watches from a distance and keeps coming back. Because every time he drew near, something in her softened. Maybe she didn't even notice it. But he did. He kept pursuing because he could already see what peace between them looked like and he wanted that .
That's the groom on the rooftop, patient, persistent, pursuing.
And then; the end of a matter is better than its beginning.
We know what "It is finished" sounds like. We've read it,sang it so many times.
But that moment on the cross was the end of a very long matter. A matter that started in a garden where God walked with man in the cool of the day and then sin entered and the walking stopped.
But God never stopped watching for His beloved .
With every covenant, every prophet, every sacrifice it was all Him staying on the rooftop. Drawing near,waiting for the moment He could say DONE.
The end was always going to be better. He planned it that way.
Which brings us to the better covenant. Established on better promises.
Not just revised promises. Better ones. The old covenant said you keep yourself right before God. And we couldn't.
So Christ became the guarantor of the New covenant.
Which means He didn't just sign off on the promise , He is the promise. He absorbed everything,every contention ,every 'quarrelsomeness' that stood between us and the Father and said, I've got this. She can come in.
And the better promises? Peace in the house again.😀 Now I have Pece with God , I have Communion with the Him. Everything the Groom always wanted His bride to walk in finally coming to a fruitful end..
Here's what I kept seeing across all three;
Better always required staying through discomfort and even pain .
The groom stayed on the rooftop, in pursuit, the preacher in Ecclesiastes stayed through the whole matter until the end proved itself better than he imagined at the start. And Christ He stayed through Gethsemane, through the cross, through the silence until that resurrection morning became the loudest proof that the end of a matter is better than its beginning.
In Christ we have something better than what Adam lost. We have a covenant that can not be broken because its guarantor cannot fail.
Song of Solomon 2:16
My beloved is mine, and I am His.
✨ In Christ ✨
