I Am Your Lover not your Master because You are My Wife not My Slave

I Am Your Lover not your Master because You are My Wife not My Slave I want you to imagine a relationship between a man and a woman who are about to get married. He wants to marry a woman and He tells her what conditions she needs to fill in order to be suitable for Him. He was telling her how to pursue Him, reconcile to Him and meet the standard: “Listen, I want you to build Me a House (Tabernacle) and I will come and live in the house that you built for me. Then I want you to give Me gifts every day (offerings) and sacrifice you all for Me. I will tell you what gifts to bring Me and if I’m pleased with them”. Then He opens this huge scroll and lets her know that she HAS to love Him with all her heart, might and soul and if she breaks one of these commandments…. She cannot be with Him and has to kicked out of the house she herself built. It she doesn’t love Him with all her might and meets all His demands, she is filthy, defiled, unclean, not worthy to be with Him and she is immediately removed from Him. He tells her she has to take a shower (cleansing) to keep herself pure for Him and reconcile with Him if she wants to be with Him. Imagine how she daily has to check if she is clean enugh for Him. Imagine this woman bowing down to such a husband saying O.K, I’ll live with You in this relationship. I will do all that You’ve asked and I will obey. What woman would marry a man like this? What woman in her right mind want to be in such an abusive relationship? Only a prostitute who does not know her worth and her value would sell herself for a relationship with such a pimp who takes from her all that she has. This is what Israel said to God “We will hear and obey”. The minute they said it in their pride, thinking they could fulfill the law, God said to Moses “tell them not to come near Me and stay away from the Mountain”. After they received that law and thought they could live with God under such a marriage covenant, all they experienced was the wrath of God for EVERY failure to keep that law or meet those standards. They were never good enough. Why was that? Because God is THE Giver of ALL things. In the New Covenant it’s Him who built you a House; It’s Him who gave you gifts; It’s Him who sacrificed His life for you and gave His all for you; It’s Him who cleansed and purified you; It’s Him who reconciled you to Himself; It’s Him who came to you and pursued you; It’s Him who loved you; Jesus is a Lover. In the new marriage covenant we know God as a Lover, but in the old system man can only know Him as a Master – a distorted image of who He really is. A man and a woman who live together in a relationship and he rules over her, lords over her or treats her like a master, coming with demands… that's called an abusive relationship. Such relationship under the system of the law makes it impossible for the two who are one to celebrate one another. A marriage relationship can either be one of celebration or of toleration. We need to celebrate one another, not tolerate one another. But how can they do it if all they see is how each one is falling short? How can they do it if they do not see how equal they are and the same? How can they do it if one believes he is more than the other and she feels she can never measure up to his standard and expectations? A love relationship can never be established on such a foundation of separation. God was a Husband (Baal in Hebrew) to Israel under the old system. They did not know Him as their Lover (Ishi). Jesus established a New Covenant – a new relationship system founded on love, equality, sharing, being blind to nakedness. Lording over the wife is a curse that Eve put herself under. It was never the Lord's intention for His Beloved who is as He is to live in an inferior design, or relate to her as lording over her. They were created Ish and Isha, not Husband (Baal) and Wife. Only AFTER eating the wrong fruit Eve submitted herself to the curses of the law and “your husband will rule over you.” Your Ishi will govern you, be a master to you, own you, lord over you. Meaning “her desire will be for her Ishi and she is the one chasing after him, trying to please him and earn his love. At the same time he will lord over her. The Hebrew says you shall call me "Ishi" (my personal man - which means a Lover), and no more "my Baal" (my husband, one who lords over, one who forces, one who makes you, who demands from you, a master). This is our wonderful Jesus full of grace love and truth. He wants to be your Lover, no longer your Master. It's a Lover-Wife relationship of being equal, not a Master-Slave relationship as one is less than the other. He formed a Lover-Beloved relationship. Hos 2:16-17 NASB "It will come about in that day," declares the LORD, "That you will call Me Ishi And will no longer call Me Baali. (17) "For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, So that they will be mentioned by their names no more. Our Father wants us to know Him for who He truly is – Love and a Lover. He even created man in His image and all males in the earthly are the ones who pursue their females. We all know how a man feels about a woman when she is the one pursuing him, giving to him, trying to win him, trying to persuade him to love her or be with her. Such a woman has no worth in a man’s eyes. It’s the same with us and the Lord. He wants you to rest in all that He has done and given to you not on what you can do for Him. He wants you to be established in His love for you and not be shaken on how much you can love Him with all our might and effort. He is pleased with you, you don’t need to win His love or attention.