Song of Solomon 1:2-4a
“May you kiss me with the kisses of your commandments!
For your massive love is better than any pleasure I have experienced in this world.
Your presence is so satisfying.
Your very name is “Presence (life) poured out;
No wonder the Hidden ones love you.
Draw (take) me away, and we will live as one.”
One of an emerging lovesick heart’s real characteristics is that His commandments feel like kisses, not burdens. Jesus said in John 14, “He who has My commandments and keeps them, is the one who loves Me…”
Lovesickness looks for outlets to express love. Without them, a heart filled with First Love will explode. Genuine passion for another can’t be contained (just look at the Cross and see how God couldn’t contain His wholehearted love for us). Not only can a lovesick heart not be contained, but it searches for opportunities to sacrifice.
The Shulamite, after encountering the love of Jesus, chose to live the life of a Hidden one, and she pleads for more commandments to be revealed to her so that she could offer her obedience back to Jesus as sacrifices of love.
By the way, a Hidden One is not someone who chooses to live an ascetic life separated from the world but is one who has decided in the midst of this world to live hidden away in Him. Abiding in Him as the object and source of your living is the life of a Shulamite.
When you choose that life, you will discover that He will use all things, the joyful and the painful, to draw you away to Him and even deeper so that your true dream to live as one with Him will become more real in your experience than ever before.
Sometimes, He takes away your wildest dreams to give you the desire of your heart.