Song 4:9 “You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride; You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes, With a single strand of your necklace.
Song 1:2 ¶ “May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.
Wine in the Song of Solomon speaks of all the pleasure this world, good or bad, has to offer. Therefore she discovers that His love is better than any pleasure in this world. It was this initial discovery that brought her to a place of surrender, and pursuit of a life of love sickness, and Christlikeness. This is so understandable because His love is amazing in its passion, depth, and relentlessness. One moment of true subjective encounter is life shattering in a most wonderful way. It ruins you for anything else. So, I get it for a person, having encounter His love, would say, His love is better than wine, but what I can’t grasp is that He would say, as it does in 4:10, that our love brings Him more pleasure than anything in the vast universes. Just think about that; in our weakness, and inconsistency, those single glances, and single strands bring Him more pleasure than all of creation. That is unimaginable to me; that He could love me so much that, and that I could mean that much to Him who needs nothing. It can’t be that I deserve it; it can only mean that He has chosen me for this, because that is who He is. The next time you gaze on a crucifix you’ll understand better “WHY.” The next time you hear those words, “I THIRST,” youll better understand what He was thirsting for.