To The One My Heart Loves

A few days ago, I was doing some things in the computer when I found the intro from Hillsong’s “Mighty to Save” in YouTube. It featured six verses, but a comment caught my attention and one verse specifically:

Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother's house, to the room of the one who conceived me. (Song of Solomon 3:4, NIV)

I know, huh? It’s strange to use Song of Solomon (or Canticle of Canticles, how you prefer to name it) in a non-sexual fashion. The point of the book is to exalt the virtue of Godly love, in all spheres –be it sexual, mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual, never to be left out. It is extra-hard to expound it without prior looks or biases of love.

I have read Song of Solomon. Beautiful book. It brings to my attention that this verse –as the comment correctly stated- was not much used in churches anymore. (Do I remember hearing it?) It is also interesting, because the lover doesn’t want to let him go. NOT. ONE. BIT. She was deeply in love with this man –is he Solomon?- and would not leave him, not any chance. She has dared to find him wherever he is and take him to her mother’s house- as a sign of marriage and respect.

Well, maybe we can draw something to us. We need God, NOW! She was desperate to seek him, so are we? She wanted to know him more, so are we? She was to go to the harshest circumstances, so are we? Yes, we do fail to strive for the ideal that brings seeking God, but we start in bits by bits. I guess God looks our desire to grow in His grace. Just a simple, “Lord, I don’t want to let you go”, with the most simple and humble heart, is more than enough to begin.

Some more food for thought: His splendor was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden. (Habakkuk 3:4, NIV)

Here’s to the One my heart loves… the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, Jesus Christ.