Songs of Solomon 2:4
Watch The Context
The verse in the continuation of the bride's song about her man. However, the picture of the story now move to indoor acitivity, signifying intimacy and privacy. The stage movedfrom fields full of flowers and trees to a special room.
Banquet Hall: the special chamber of King Solomon. This room is dedicated for only selected people. Some scholar suggest that this expression might be actually reffering to his own bedroom or a special chamber to enjoy drinking wine. This suggestion is suppoted by internal evidence on the text regarding what kind of activity that happens in the room (verse 5) Which is highly sexual in its Hebrew expression.
Observe the Word:
"He looked at me lovingly" (NET): this whole sentence is indeed a very expressive statement by the writer. Reason given, the literal translation of this sentence is actually can be translated as: his banner was around me. This is an euphimistic expression of an intense sexual desire over a person. However as we see the context of the whole verse its all been done in a very intimate way. The fully attachment of the bride and groom over each other.
Reflect the message to my personal experience:
This is when devotional time might lead you to spiritual lesson that is not the typical one. But that is the beauty of the scripture and that is the reason why i even more in love with the Bible. Its a fresh bread on my spiritual journey.
So lets go to the obvious one first: Sex is not something that is considered dirty in the Bible. Sex is always an integral part of human relationship and embraced naturally. However, its always remain sacred as well. It is The unity of two human being in a very deep and intimate way physically,emotionally, and spiritually.
Satan knows the power of sexuality and working hard to twist and confuse us regarding sex. At first, he makes it looks dirty and evil that it is become a taboo and sinful to discuss about it. I have watched a documentaries of the history of Pornography. Part of the emergence of Pornography was because the fact that the Church once banned and consider sex an evil act of intimacy. By suppresing the natural-God given desire of human being, many people went into the backdoor and pornography become a commodity of trade. The problem with that, when something is hidden, yet all know about it the power and influence its bring was so intense.
However, in this last day it is quite the opposite. Something that was so covered up now become overindulged and it has lost its sacredness. Sex has become a routine in all aspect of human experience. It is not hard to see bikini clad, or scantily clad advertisement on the magazine, newspaper, and other media. The commercial market knows that sex does sell and so does other media such as music and movie indusrty. As the result we are bombarded with sexual images and messages 24/7
The verse in this book songs of solomon brought us into a different perspective of it. Sex is not as "cheap" as how the world perceive sex today, but on the same time openly show itself as one of the strongest natural expression of love. Sex is intense, intimate, and sacred. Just the way God's love expressed to us its intense, yet intimate and sacred.
Keyword: sex, love, intimacy
Develop a new walk in Grace:
Project:
To embrace God's intense love and accept it
To love my spouse and view our sexual relationship based on how the bible teach us rather than the way the world show it.
Prayer:
Thank you LORD for creating a way of expressing love through a relationship called sex. Satan wants to destroy the true meaning of it, for he knows the effect it brings. Help me to set my eyes on you to be able to be led by the Spirit
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