Sealed

 

I said I was going to blog about the amazement of being SEALED, so here I am! I still don’t know a ton, but what I do know, it just amazes me. I love when we just sit and meditate on what one word can mean for us, spiritually and relationally.

Being sealed, is a huge deal. You see it OFTEN in the bible, old and new testaments. Obviously the new testament is more of how we are sealed by the Holy Spirit, He is our seal that we belong to God. Our stamp, so to speak.

it’s quite a historic thing, this whole ‘sealing’ deal. You saw it often historically with Kings and Nations and all kinds of dealings of nobility, in writing letters and going back and forth, it was stamped, or sealed with a specific ‘signature ring’ or initials or something so that you knew who sent it, or who’s ship or army or anything belonged to.

Christ does that for us. In reality, we belong to Him. He has sealed us.

One of my favorite songs that just always connects to my heart is “You Won’t Relent” and it takes a verse from Song of Songs that I love..

“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.”

I love this, Song of Songs obviously is between two lovers. But this verse can ring so true with our relationship with Christ, for He is love and we can only love by being IN HIM. sealed with Him and by His love. We are like a seal upon His heart. and when Jesus died on the cross, and God sent His Holy Spirit, and we accepted Him, we were sealed.

I am grateful to be sealed, to belong to Christ.