Song of Solomon paints a picture of a couple who desire each other and care for each other. The lover adores his beloved and treats her with respect and tenderness. He is sensitive to her and she responds to him with love. When she is treated with love, she eagerly desires to give herself wholly to her beloved. She desires to be possessed by her beloved as a response to his sensitivity.
In the same way, we respond to Christ. He has treated us with love and we then respond to him by giving ourselves wholly to him. Our obedience to him is a response to how we have been cared for and overflows from a deep and abiding love for him. How beautiful! We do not have to feel obligated to serve him--instead, let us long to give ourselves to him in obedience! Let us desire to be possessed by him because he has loved us so tenderly.
I will call out that I am my beloved's, and he is mine!
I appreciated your blog. One note, though for future reference. Mary Slessor did not make the remark about another; her biographer (W.P.Livingstone) made the remark about Mary Slessor.
ReplyDeleteKeep writing - and serving the Lord.
Jeanette
rjhardage@mindspring.com
author, Mary Slessor - Everybody's Mother: The Era and Impact of a Victorian Missionary (Wipf and Stock 2008)