“Take me away with you; let us run. The king has brought me into His chambers.” Song of Solomon 1:4
2 Corinthians 3:18 talks about, “being transformed into the same image (of Christ) from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” The Song of Solomon passage that I quoted above uses the term “chambers,” which is obviously a plural word. These are glory chambers that move closer and closer to the heart of God, and closer and closer to a clearer image of Christ-likeness being demonstrated in our lives. We have been included into the life that Jesus lives, and the favor He lives under, and metaphorically when the Shulamite cries out, “Take me away with you,” she is praying for Jesus to take her from where she’s at spiritually, to live the life that He is living. She is so hungry to experience that, she adds the phrase “let us run.”
From all the chaos that we have gone through in the last couple years, like a phoenix, God is looking for a people who will emerge from the ashes like an army called desperation which is consumed with the hunger to fully, without measure, experience the life that Jesus lives. God is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond anything we’ve ever ask or imagine because His dreams for us are much bigger than ours. We have been placed into the life of Christ. Our feet have been placed into this large room called the life that Jesus lives, and yet as we move from glory to glory, or from chamber to chamber, we have larger experiences of the large room. Every time we move from one chamber to the next our transformation is expanded. At the cross, Jesus earned that large room, all those chambers that make up the large room, for us. Remember, Colossians 3:11 tells us that, “Christ is all, and in all.” Everything that you long for in God is in Christ because He is all, and the one who is all, is in every single Christian, but God isn’t content that we have “all.” He wants us to experience the all; not just “the some.” I realize the term “birthing” is an overused term in charismatic circles, and often it is wrongly used, but every time we move from one chamber of glory into the next chamber of glory experientially,it is like a birthing. With every birthing there is a birth canal to pass through, and to pass through the birth canal that goes from one chamber of glory to the next there is a narrowing that limits what we can take with us into the next “more” of the “all” that’s ours in Christ. The point being is that in every transition from glory to glory in Christ, there are some things that have to be left behind.There are just some things you can’t take with you if you are going to live life on the highest plane, hidden with Christ in God in the heavenly places. The birth canal has a name, and that name is “repentance,” and repentance is nothing more and nothing less than “trading up.” Repentance is such a joyful word because it always represents a fresh offer from God. It prepares the way of the Lord.
I believe prophetically that yesterday on Mother’s Day, the birthing began for the “hungry.” For those of you who are “starving” for a larger experience of the “large room in Christ,” ask God to give you the eyes of a little child so you can catch a big-eyed vision of the glory, so that you will gleefully let go so that you can trade up.