Scarborough Affair
Jan 31st, 2008
Scribe: Priscilla Van Sutphin
The Lord spoke to me Scarborough Affair. As I read the words I began to weep.
Scarborough Fair/Canticle (3:10)
P. Simon/A. Garfunkel, 1966
Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine Tell her to make me a cambric shirt (On the side of a hill in the deep forest green) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground) Without no seams nor needlework (Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain) Then she'll be a true love of mine (Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)
Tell her to find me an acre of land (On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Washed is the ground with so many tears) Between the salt water and the sea strand (A soldier cleans and polishes a gun) Then she'll be a true love of mine
Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather (War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions) Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill) And to gather it all in a bunch of heather (And to fight for a cause they have long ago forgotten) Then she'll be a true love of mine Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme Remember me to one who lives there. She once was a true love of mine
Scarborough Fair - Song on which the above is based…
Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there For once she was a true love of mine. Have her make me a cambric shirt Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme without a seam or fine needle work And then she'll be a true love of mine.
Have her wash it in yonder dry well Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Where ne'er a drop of water e'er fell And then she'll be a true love of mine.
Have her find me an acre of land Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the sea and over the sand And then she'll be a true love of mine.
Plow the land with the horn of a lamb Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Then sow some seeds from north of the dam And then she'll be a true love of mine.
If she tells me she can't, I'll reply Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Let me know that at least she will try And then she'll be a true love of mine.
Love imposes impossible tasks Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Though not more than any heart asks And I must know she's a true love of mine.
Dear, when thou has finished thy task Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Come to me, my hand for to ask For thou then art a true love of mine.
-Traditional (date unknown)
The Lord began then to speak as I asked Him what He wanted to say about this:
“I am looking for My true love ! I am looking for her to come to ME, and to return to her first love. I am asking her to don new garments, new clothes that are washed in the Blood of the Lamb. I’m asking her to invite ME into her heart more deeply, that she could drink of the water and wine, that she could drink of the wine on the lees I’ve prepared for her. I am asking her to come back to the place of INTIMACY with Me, and to leave behind the busyness of this world.
Love however with Me is not IMPOSSIBLE, though with many human beings your experience has been different, My love NEVER FAILS. My LOVE, is never-ending and SURE. It is only when you are filled to the full with THIS LOVE of MINE, that you can attain true love with others, accepting them as they are.
I am asking many to come back to their FIRST LOVE for ME, that they would return and truly “fight for a cause they have long ago forgotten”
IT IS MY KINGDOM that has been forgotten. People are so busy building their own kingdoms, they have forgotten that My Son was one to leave the 99 and GO OUT and find the one that was lost. They have forgotten that this is truly a BATTLE – that soldiers get wounded in BATTLE.
They have forgotten many of the principles I first taught them. So I’m sounding a clarion call to RETURN to YOUR LORD and KING. REPENT and be saved because many of you have strayed so far as to be on sinking sand. You’ve followed after ‘other lovers’ – giving in to idolatry to men and women in the church and in the world instead of putting ME first.
Like a camel in the desert going in circles, they run after man, run after this conference, and that conference, hoping to get more, hoping to find something that can be found ONLY IN ME. EXALTING MEN over time with ME. It’s not wrong to go to conferences. It is wrong to find all your hope in them instead of time with ME.
When will you turn from your adulteries oh man ? When will you let go of THIS WORLD and put ME first in your lives ?
You say you love me. You sing you love me, but MY HEART ACHES FOR COMMUNION WITH YOU. MY HEART WANTS TO BE ONE WITH YOU. DOES A HUSBAND SHARE HIS BED WITH ANOTHER MAN ?
DOES A WIFE SHARE HER BED WITH ANOTHER WOMAN ?
Why then do you seek out other lovers, other ‘saviors’ ? I AM your only true SAVIOR. LEAN ON ME BELOVEDS. For I tell you that if you continue in this idolatry and not wanting the fullness of the truth, you will be found wanting and in lack in the days to come. I AM YOUR EXCEEDINGLY GREAT REWARD.
I AM !”
Ezek 44:28-30 NKJV "It shall be, in regard to their inheritance, that I am their inheritance. You shall give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession. 29 They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 The best of all firstfruits of any kind, and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the priest's; also you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
Rev 1:4-6 NKJV Greeting the Seven Churches John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.
To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 1:13-16 NKJV Living Before God Our Father
Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14 as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; 15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."
1 Peter 2:9-10 NKJV But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
