The beloved

As we get into the valentine season, much is being said about love flowing in the air. In the streets of Nairobi Kenya and in the sphere of the youth, much excitement and expectation is flowing in the year. While this is going on I just landed on my journal which I scribbled like four years ago. It’s about the beloved as described in The book of song of Solomon which is in arguably the book of romance in the Bible.

This dramatic love story is enshrined in the antics of the greatest soap opera icon to have ever Lived, King Solomon. We know this off course because he had the innate ability to entertain Seven Hundred Wives and Three Hundred concubines. We may think of This king as the greatest Immoral being to have ever appeared on the face of the earth but am taken aback by the potential he had of flowing out love and passion to all her beloveds but off course after its all said and done, his adventures were deemed as vanity of vanities.

Away from scrutiny, the book of Song of Songs records conversations full of love between the lover and the beloved and occasionally we see third party factors attesting to the love that flows between the two, pretty much like the love story that God initiates with us until the whole world testifies of it.

The beloved unleashes her love and passion towards her lover in the beginning of the book.

Song of Songs 1:2-4Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
For your love is better than wine;
³     your anointing oils are fragrant;
your name is oil poured out;
    therefore virgins love you.
⁴ Draw me after you; let us run.
    The king has brought me into his chambers.

The conversations continue through out the chapters. As we are going to find out, the bliss of this aura of love is not so much endowed in the beloved expressing her love to his lover but it’s about the Lover and how he unleashes tones of love that captivates and changes the whole world surrounding the beloved. The beloved is captivated by her lover and she lets into the motions of love. This is a type of the bride, the church who, you who is the bride of Christ. If we can love is because God has loved us first and therefore the rule of first love is in motion. Love is the biggest force of all times, it’s innate and wired in us because we have been created in the image and the likeness of God.

When we look into the face of Christ and see his glory in the face of God, we are drawn into his chambers. The kind of love makes us new and glorious. The beloved confesses that though she is dark, she is still lovely.

I am very dark, but lovely,
    O daughters of Jerusalem,
like the tents of Kedar,
    like the curtains of Solomon.vs 5

When the earth was created it was dark and void and without form. The darkness here represents the void and formlessness that only one lover can fulfill. She is dark so that all the brilliance comes from her lover alone. We know that our sufficiency does nt come from us but solely on Christ. And so the exchange continues in an endless run of lovable rhymes. We see this love finding its completion in Christ.

He is the love of our life and the king who has drawn us into his chambers. He has serenaded us and we are captivated in his love. Let us see the blistering centre where love springs from the heart of God. Its in this centre that human life finds meaning and completion. Souls are stilled and hearts abandoned in our one and only love