Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth reminds us how patient Christ is with his bride.

It's amazing enough to think of how long-suffering Christ is with unbelievers,

but even more amazing to think how long-suffering he is with us.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Walkamuth,

author of A Place of Quiet

Rest.

It's Friday, March 11, 2016.

For the last few weeks, Nancy's been taking us through the Song of Solomon in the series

How to Fall and Stay in Love with Jesus. So many women have been called to go deeper

into an intimate relationship with Christ. Nancy's here to continue that series. I realize as we're

teaching through this series and doing an extended series on a short book of the Bible, that some of

this can start to sound repetitive.

But it's all in God's Word, which means we need it all.

And I think there's something really valuable about meditating on passages of Scripture where we don't just gloss over it.

We don't just quickly move Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiase, Song of Solomon, and on to the next one.

But where we take time to look at it from

many different angles and to savor what we're seeing there. That's what meditation does. It's

chewing on it, gazing upon it, reflecting on it. And the more I reflect on these passages, the more I

see there, so much I would like to have shared in this series that ended up getting cut from my notes.

But it's good for us to be reflecting over this period of time, this Lenton series in particular

on the love of Christ for His people.

And my hope and prayer is that as a result of fixing our eyes on Christ and on His great love,

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