He Whom My Soul Loves
At every turn as we search for our love, adversity will try and steal our hope away. In Song of Songs once she found him and newness in her spirit is aroused it didn't seem long before her desire wasted. He knocked at her door and she had no desire to get up and open it. Isn't this so like us? He waits as only our Lord can wait at the door of our heart and we're too tired, too occupied to let Him enter (continuously enter). He desired her and once aroused she could not find him and had to begin searching again. Is this how we are with our Lord? Does He need to bang on our door in order for us to answer.
Song of Songs 3:2-3: I sought him but did not find him. The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me, and I said, "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?" (My soul, my very being).
These watchmen may be significant of those sent by the Lord in our darkest hour, in the desert times as we make the decision and long to find Him; they are sent to guide us. They are those that gently but firmly guide us back on the correct path. Being occupied and forgetting her first love, the bride becomes vulnerable and in Chapter 5 these watchmen ravaged and violate her. These are destruction and diversions that try to steal our first love away. There is a strength in her as she is determined to find her lover once again, she quickly defends him to her sisters with a passionate description of His beauty. She knew Him and desires Him as her own. How can we run from such passion? As we find our path to embrace this love it is healing, then we love Him with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind and all our strength. Matthew 22:37
It is Christ within you, He embraces you with a love that only He is able to give.
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