3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest
is my lover among the young men.
I delight to sit in his shade,
and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
4 He has taken me to the banquet hall,
and his banner over me is love.
5 Strengthen me with raisins,
refresh me with apples,
for I am faint with love.
6 His left arm is under my head,
and his right arm embraces me.
7 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.
8 Listen! My lover!
Look! Here he comes,
leaping across the mountains,
bounding over the hills.
9 My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag.
Look! There he stands behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
peering through the lattice.
10 My lover spoke and said to me,
"Arise, my darling,
my beautiful one, and come with me.
11 See! The winter is past;
the rains are over and gone.
12 Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
is heard in our land.
13 The fig tree forms its early fruit;
the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.
Arise, come, my darling;
my beautiful one, come with me."
The first verse that God showed me is verse 4 where it says
"He has taken me to the banquet hall,
and his banner over me is love."
As I really began to think about this verse and look at the words in the Hebrew I found out that the Banner can also be called his presence
We could also translate this verse to say
"He brought me into his chambers and his presence of Love filled the Room"
I began to think about that and I thought about how awesome of an experience that would be to go into God's inner chambers and just feel his love all around me!
As I read on in this passage God showed me something in verse 5 and 6 where it is talking about how "I am faint with love" and how he holds my head with one hand and embraces me with the other but then after it talks about this little romantic scene it says in verse 7
"Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires."
This confused me because it went from talking about this romantic story to saying Don't fall in love!
But then as I read on I realized it was saying to wait until the time is right! Because later on in verse 10-13 it says
10 My lover spoke and said to me,
"Arise, my darling,
my beautiful one, and come with me.
11 See! The winter is past;
the rains are over and gone.
12 Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
is heard in our land.
To me this is saying that the time as finally come and as the lover comes to his beloved he tells her "Arise" or Wake Up come with me for the winter is over!
The winter signifies a season and I think that verse 7 was saying that we need to not awaken love until the time is right!
That for the lover in this story the time was not right he had to wait until after the winter season came before he could take his beloved out of her home and into his chambers!
Another thing that caught my eye was in verse 12 where it says the season of singing has come!
After I read this God told me that the season has come NOW is the time to embrace our lover and to go away with him into his chambers! For NOW is the time to awaken a spirit of love and intimacy in worship!
But in order for that season to come there must be singing that this "Banner" or spirit will only go out through worship and singing!
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