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.
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
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
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