Awake, O north wind, and ... blow upon my garden

Bagster's Daily Light - January 28 - Evening

Awake, O north wind, and ... blow upon my garden.

Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits. 1

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 2

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 3

Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind. 4

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. 5

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 6

Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 7

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 8
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1 Song of Songs 4:16;
2 Heb 12:11;
3 Gal 5:22;
4 Isa 27:8;
5 Psa 103:13;
6 2 Cor 4:16-18;
7 Heb 5:8;
8 Heb 4:15