Song of Songs Chapter 8.

13 You who dwell in the gardens with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

Song of Songs Chapter 8.

10 I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. Thus I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment.
11 Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he let out his vineyard to tenants. Each was to bring for its fruit a thousand shekels of silver.
12 But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.

 Each and every teaching God has given us is written down in the Bible. However there are many people who neither know God nor recognize God’s will even though they read the Bible. It is because God takes away the wisdom and understanding of those who follow man-made rules and gives it only to His chosen people – He opens their spiritual eyes and ears so that they can understand His words(Isa 29:13~14; Mt 13:10~16)

Considering this fact, we come to know that God is truly “Wonderful Counselor.” When we look carefully into all things created by God, we can find the profound providence of the Creator in them.

Freshwater fish usually swim upstream against the current. You may wonder why they swim so hard upstream even though they can easily go wherever they want to when they swim downstream with the current. However, if they swim against the current, they can do exercise and strengthen their muscles. So, they can stay in their natural habitats without being swept away by a strong current into the sea, which contains a high level of salt.

There is also a certain reason why the wind blows a lot during the spring season. As for trees, they absorb water and nutrients through their roots and send them to the branches, so that they can put forth buds. For this, it is required to shake off the branches that have been frozen throughout the winter months.

God, Wonderful Counselor, who has come in the flesh

Everything God does contains an amazing counsel that is beyond all human imagination. God put the tree of the knowlede of good and evil in the Garden of Eden and made Adam and Eve eat from the tree, by using the serpent that He had created to tempt Eve.

All this was in accordance with God’s wonderful and marvelous administration for our redemption. It was also in accordance with the counsel of God that He came in the flesh. Elohim God had already foretold in the Bible that He would come in the flesh, and He came as prophesied. However, strangely and ironically enough, those who claimed to believe in God did not recognize Him. Truly God is Wonderful Counselor.

Isa 9:6 For to us a cild is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isa 53:1~3 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faceshe was despised, and we esteemed him not.

When Jesus Christ came to this earth as the Son, He had no beauty or majesty to attract people to Him, nothing in His appearance they should desire Him. He came to this earth, completely hiding His glory, so that no one would esteem Him.

All this was in accordance with the counsel of God. God has come to this earth in the numblest way and is looking for His children. This earth is a city of refuge – a prison where the souls who sinned are gathered together. Jesus came to this earth in the flesh to inspect the sinners from heaven – to see if they were truly living a life of self-reflection and repentance.

When God uses such a plan, what should we do? Since God’s plan or purpose is far beyond our perception or understanding, we just have to follow it.