Today Our Daily Bread Ps 45

Psalms 45: 1 - 17
1 For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah, to be sung to the tune "Lilies." A love song. My heart overflows with a beautiful thought! I will recite a lovely poem to the king, for my tongue is like the pen of a skillful poet. 2 You are the most handsome of all. Gracious words stream from your lips. God himself has blessed you forever. 3 Put on your sword, O mighty warrior! You are so glorious, so majestic! 4 In your majesty, ride out to victory, defending truth, humility, and justice. Go forth to perform awe-inspiring deeds! 5 Your arrows are sharp, piercing your enemies' hearts. The nations fall before you, lying down beneath your feet.
6 Your throne, O God, F33 endures forever and ever. Your royal power is expressed in justice. 7 You love what is right and hate what is wrong. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else. 8 Your robes are perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cassia. In palaces decorated with ivory, you are entertained by the music of harps. 9 Kings' daughters are among your concubines. At your right side stands the queen, wearing jewelry of finest gold from Ophir!
10 Listen to me, O royal daughter; take to heart what I say. Forget your people and your homeland far away. 11 For your royal husband delights in your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord. 12 The princes of Tyre F34 will shower you with gifts. People of great wealth will entreat your favor. 13 The bride, a princess, waits within her chamber, dressed in a gown woven with gold. 14 In her beautiful robes, she is led to the king, accompanied by her bridesmaids. 15 What a joyful, enthusiastic procession as they enter the king's palace! 16 Your sons will become kings like their father. You will make them rulers over many lands. 17 I will bring honor to your name in every generation. Therefore, the nations will praise you forever and ever.
FOOTNOTES:F33: Or Your divine throne. F34: Hebrew The daughter of Tyre.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation,copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,

~Lena's Comments~
What a beautiful description of the heart of the One on the cross, the work of the cross, the victory of the cross. It almost sounds as if the agony was really the song of deliverance. Heaven’s answer was being fulfilled in earth. We know that there was an end represented there- "It is finished", but Oh what a beginning that was for us! How does the Lord’s throne endure forever? We adopt it as our object of rule and let Him reign, teaching our children to let Him reign, being examples in the earth of His reign, by doing as He does. Loving right so much, that we hate what is wrong, we abhor what keeps us from Him. We despise any hindrance in our own lives that brings separation of us from God. We’re anointed and carry and live His anointing.
One time I was up in the night and I read this passage and I said, "Lord, if Jesus was dressed this way, I want to understand this and wear what He wore". I looked up the three scents and studied their meanings (I was doing a midnight pregnancy wake up call thing). The Lord showed me through the definitions that I was being clothed in these as I allowed the work of His spirit to change things in me that He’d pointed out needed some work. When I’d first find out they needed work, and I’d been doing those "bad habits" for a longtime, I was resistant and had some pain in my soul, even to the point of crying and anger and frustration. I did not know how to change who I was. I had been living this way a longtime. I kept going back to Him and was unable to do this easily. I became discouraged at seeing the same old me over and over again, it was now not a very pretty sight. Before this time I was just bring who I was, but now that I saw who that was and how that was coming against the development of Christ in me, I struggled in my soul and was becoming broken down. I was broken down to the point of constant weeping over it. My soul was not at ease to say the least. I wanted to defend my rights to be who I was. That night the Lord showed me that in seeing and turning towards the change I was being clothed with Myrrh (means bitterness of soul, bitter weeping, the same as my natural middle name "Marie) Next, the Lord showed me, through the definitions, that I was in a process of change. As I submitted to the change and stayed in the process, healing for my soul would appear. This was the Aloe (which means, "healing balm"). Lastly, the Lord showed me the desired end and the product of change, the produce of "going Through" the process without quitting. The end was Cassia. "Cassia" means, "a bent over, yielded vessel". THAT is what Jesus was dressed in when He headed towards the cross (a desired end), as a man who has a soul that deals with life and must make Himself yield to change for a greater good. He was brought to a place of yielding- "Not My will But Thine be done." No matter what it takes.
We decided to name our child (of that pregnancy) Cassia, so we’d be constantly reminded of that desired end, and have the vision to change for the greater good and be reminded to do so everyday. Our children are living stones, memorials of the word before us. Cassia reminds me of the Rhema word everyday, in a living form. I can even say that 5 3/4 years ago, I heard that word and in so measuring, I can see where I’ve come in the process. She is a marker for God in my life and will be a marker for God in other’s lives too.
Vs 10- to me says, forgetting what was behind, and pressing on to who is ahead- Christ IN me, the hope of glory for the world. When one yields his garments to the King, he will be dressed in far better than what was scented with myrrh, aloe and cassia. His garments will be gold, that which endures time and withstands elements of effect. This process and clothing loose your ministry to others who will follow, just as Jesus’ sufferings brought Him to that place, where he was the firstborn of MANY! The Process-ion to the King! Our lives are a process to the king.