Song of Songs 7:10-13 NASB
[10] “I am my beloved’s, And his desire is for me. [11] “Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country, Let us spend the night in the villages. [12] “Let us rise early and go to the vineyards; Let us see whether the vine has budded And its blossoms have opened, And whether the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love. [13] “The mandrakes have given forth fragrance; And over our doors are all choice fruits, Both new and old, Which I have saved up for you, my beloved. …
The song of Solomon is all about union and communion. Out of our union with Christ we are called into a place of deep communion with him from which the manifestation of our union will grow. At this place in chapter 7 the Shulumite’s heart is growing accustomed to being one with the heart of Christ, and she makes one of the great confessions in Scripture which is 7:10, “I am my beloved’s, and His desire is for me.” What an amazing consciousness and confession, and from that place of deep identity her union with the heart of her beloved arises as she wants to rise early, with a sense of urgency, to carry Jesus into the fields, and villages of hurting and broken humanity. She proclaims that her service in his name is now one of her ways of giving her love back to her beloved. She is no longer seeing herself as a Jesus “Worker-Bee;” instead her service for him is now as a worshiper, as a lovesick servant. All the fruit that she would bear in being this lovesick servant she is saving up for him. Instead of her work, and service, being out of guilt, out of trying to find some sense of worth and identity through the approval of others, and out of her own strength, she is now longing to give his heart away to others, because she’s now moving out of her union with Him, and out of her love for him.
Is this where you are? Is this where you long to be? Do you long to love with His love, and because you’re being compelled by love, and energized by his strength and anointing which flows from union with Him. This is what Jesus is looking for. He is looking for true worshipers who serve him because the love of Christ is controlling them, and the power of Christ is enabling them. He’s looking for people whose every act is for him, and by him.