Song 4:1 “How beautiful you are, my darling,
How beautiful you are!
Your eyes are like doves behind your veil;
Your hair is like a flock of goats
That have descended from Mount Gilead.
After the Bridegrooms opening declaration of how beautiful the Shulamite (The radically surrendered Believer) is to Him, He begins to define her beauty. These expressions of beauty that He praises are emerging virtues He sees, though not fully developed, in all the “Hidden Ones,” who have signed up to love Him with all their heart. The first virtue of beauty He praises her for are her doves eyes that are behind her veil. As we’ve stated before, doves can speak of undistracted love and devotion, because mourning doves never mate again, if their first mate should die. Eyes can also speak of devoted affection. What He is affirming is that behind the veil of outward behavior, even failure, she is a Lover of God. When confronted with our imperfections the enemy accuses us of being hypocrites, and phonies, yet The Lord sees our longings, and our moments of devotion and obedience, and counts them as genuine, and true love.
Though people around us can’t always see who we really are, behind the veil God sees a true Lover, even if one that’s still immature. He believes we will grow in love, because He sees our longings for Him as real love, and took our decision to radically pursue Him as genuine.