WINTER IS PAST – SONG, November 12, 2025

Hup sat in his study and read the verses upcoming in his study. Those verses, Song of Solomon, Chapter 2: 11-13, spoke of the coming spring: “For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.” 

Hup noted that the line, ‘Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away,’ was stated twice. He knew why. The first – in verse 10 – prompted him to consider what arising meant as the call. The second? That came when he experienced God’s spring. It was then he knew he was chosen. Whether anyone agreed with him or not wasn’t relevant. To each his own – yes, when you are among Christ’s own. 

The fact is, Hup knew that winter had passed because he had felt the warmth of the southern winds, as the Holy Spirit brought him to realize that he was truly forgiven. Often, the presence of his guilt and shame was attributed to a rightful judgment of God in chastening, but in all actuality? His unbelief brought this northern wind upon himself because he did not confess its root in his unbelief. The heart is, indeed, most deceitful, even as an adulterer will excuse the physical act as a consequence of a love first enjoined spiritually… emotionally… with another, and then cry out as if justifying, ‘It was never for raw sex I desired her!’ 

And then God answered me: “Indeed, and it was not without cause that your winter never ends… the rain and wind continues to blow… the crocus can not break the earth’s crust to enter light… and Jesus cursed the fig… your vineyard bore no fruit… and the voice of the turtle dove was silenced. There is no coup for the sinner to overthrow or coo for the sinner for him to be saved.