Song of Songs 2:10-14 NASB
[10] “My beloved responded and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along. [11] ‘For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone. [12] ‘The flowers have already appeared in the land; The time has arrived for pruning the vines, And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land. [13] ‘The fig tree has ripened its figs, And the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance. Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along!'” [14] “ O p my dove, in the clefts of the rock, q In the secret place of the steep pathway, r Let me see your form, s Let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, And your form t is lovely.” …
If you have been impregnated with the longing for a deeper chamber, for breakthrough, it is because the Holy Spirit has awakened your heart with those desires, and the transition into a new chamber always happens through the birth canal of intimacy, and prayer, and I distracted union; the Secret Place of the steep pathway.
When Solomon says arise my love my beautiful one and come away with me; He refers to her as “My dove,” and is inviting her to dwell in the clefts of the rock, in the secret place of the steep pathway. – The voice of the turtledove has been heard in the land, and He is reminding her, by calling her Dove, that she is in union with the Holy Spirit and therefore she is wired and built for the secret place – she’s actually being true to her new and true identity to go there because that’s where the doves live.
“Isaiah 38:14, “I moan like a dove; my eyes looked wistfully to the heights O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.”
He is not asking her to meet him there in the secret place, but he is asking her to accompany him there because that is where He lives. If she just says yes, He will guide her. The disciples asked the Lord to teach them to pray. He doesn’t just call us to new heights in intimacy; He guides us.
It is in the secret place of the steep pathway that we cultivate experientially the heart and the eyes of the dove. From there, not toward there, we grow in the “Above Life;” seeing, feeling, and speaking from the Heavenly places in Christ, down toward fallenness on this earth. Those who live in the Highest Ground always hold a strategic position in this cosmic conflict we have been baptized into.