Song of Songs 7:2 NASB
“…Your belly is like a heap of wheat Fenced about with lilies.”
Do you have a harvest in your belly. Wheat is always a biblical type representing harvest, and the Hebrew word “belly” is one of the words used for the “inner man, or heart,” and is also the Hebrew word for “womb.” The song of Solomon is a metaphorical story about a believer who has decided to begin the journey to fall in love with Jesus as much as they possibly can (it’s called “love sickness” in the song of Solomon) and to allow Jesus to live his life fully through them without limitations, or restriction. To be a lovesick dwelling place, to which Christ can live his life in fullness, is the storyline of the song of Solomon.
By the time you get to chapter 7 the Shulumite has begun to morph into the likeness of Christ in very noticeable ways, especially her manifest union with his compassionate heart to see others set free from the works of the devil, and made whole. There’s a place in Jeremiah 20 that talks about a fire being in Jeremiah’s bones to talk about God. He said because it was a fire in his bones there is no way he could be kept from bearing witness of the reality of God.
Jeremiah 20:9 NASB
But if I say, “I will not remember Him Or speak anymore in His name,” Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; And I am weary of holding it in, And I cannot endure it.”
To have a heap of wheat in your belly is the be pregnant with the desire to see others set free and made whole. Often, when we think about a harvest, we only think about the lost being saved, but that is just the beginning of the redemptive work of Christ in a life. He wants them free, and healed, and made whole. To have a harvest in your belly is to long to be the body of Christ through which Jesus continues to touch and heal broken and fallen humanity. The devil came to kill, steal, and destroy the lives of human beings, but Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. Jesus lived on earth with a harvest in his belly that compelled him by love to give his life away for the redemption of fallen humanity. Paul said in Colossians chapter 2 that he was filling up that which was lacking in Christ affliction. Jesus’ finished work at the cross cannot be added to, but we are called to carry his heart of harvest in our bellies, that compels us to lay down our lives for others, in lovesick ministry, that they might be free.