God’s Romance

Song of Solomon 2:8-17

⁸The voice of my beloved!
   Behold, he comes,
leaping over the mountains,
   bounding over the hills.
⁹My beloved is like a gazelle
   or a young stag.
Behold, there he stands
   behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
   looking through the lattice.
¹⁰My beloved speaks and says to me: ”Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
   and come away,
¹¹for behold, the winter is past;
    the rain is over and gone.
¹² The flowers appear on the earth,
   the time of singing has come,
and the voice of the turtledove
   is heard in our land.
¹³ The fig tree ripens its figs,
   and the vines are in blossom;
   they give forth fragrance.
 Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
   and come away.
¹⁴O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,
   in the crannies of the cliff,
let me see your face,
   let me hear your voice,
for your voice is sweet,
   and your face is lovely.
¹⁵Catch the foxes for us,
   the little foxes
that spoil the vineyards,
    for our vineyards are in blossom.”

    ¹⁶ My beloved is mine, and I am his;
   he grazes among the lilies.
¹⁷Until the day breathes
   and the shadows flee,
turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle
   or a young stag on cleft mountains.

 

No one and no thing can ever compare to the way God loves us and the way His spirit causes us to long after Him. He is the one that causes the day to breathe and the shadows to flee. Though we may love another person on earth, it will never compare to the Christ who is our one true Love.

 

Peace. 

~ by pcharming06 on February 23, 2009.