Do not Awaken Love until it so pleases!

In my study series through the Bible, I just finished Songs of Solomon and am appalled at the expression of love and sizzling intimacy therein; Actually, I think of God as very interesting. At one point in the Bible, He is a jealousy God, pouring His wrath on the people and then He is a loving Father showing us with His love and compassion. Then we come and see a pure bliss romantic exchange and you are just left mesmerized… 

In this quixotic conversations, the writer Solomon, however states a verse that forms a backbone of my write up today. And today I share on why I stopped watching some movies like Devious Maids and why you cannot find romantic novels, Christian or otherwise in my bookshelf. Under heaven, the writer of Ecclesiastes 3 says is a time for everything, a time to love and a time to hate and that at His appointed time, the Lord makes everything beautiful. So here we are and Solomon echoes these words…

Songs of Solomon 2: 7,3:5,8:4 “Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.”  Other versions use words like I charge you, I adjure you daughters of Jerusalem, Do not stir up, awaken, or arouse love until it so pleases.

As an unmarried person, single or single but dating at the peak of life where your blood is hot and constantly reminds you of what you are missing, it’s important to sober up and ask why this writer charges his beloved to awaken not love until it so pleases.  The words he uses, like I charge you daughter of Zion already captures the weight of his saying because it seems more of a rule than an appeal. Not just that but the fact that the same phrase has been used three times within the book. So then, why is it important to not awaken this amazing gift of love until time was right and yet she had found such a beautiful gift that she shared with her beloved?

This love is described as a blazing fire that no amount of torrent and gushing rivers can quench it. He adds that many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. It is that powerful and that is why it should not be aroused until it pleases. Clearly, what this means is if love is aroused at the wrong time, it will burn and absolutely nothing can put it off until it has burn. However, that burning and intense heat in marriage institution is what will make your sex and romance glorious…whatever that means😉😉.

So now, as an unmarried (unattached, single but courting), how well are you guarding this gift of love?

You see, many things serve to awaken love wrongly to different people. I loved to watch series sometime back when I had plenty of time in my hands. It made my weekends and I thought it was really fun way of unwinding as a Christian girl. With my introverted personality, a sizzling hot mug of coffee and a nice read cuddled up in my couch were also epic ways of seeing the weekend pass. I remember though one time watching the series “Devious Maids” and I think it was season 2. After the movies as is my norm sometimes, I have quiet times during the weekend and I really had a terrible feeling after watching it. 

You know, I understand that some people will disagree that some of the movies have clean romance in them but listen, if it makes you have relative fantasy thereafter, you are treading the wrong lane and there is a huge sign beckoning you to STOP! So yes, I was strongly convicted and ended up destroying every other like-minded movies I had in my house, the likes of Being Mary Jane and stuff…

This realization also made do a cleanup of my bookshelf and before I make a purchase of any, the first thing I look for is whether it has romance. 

I am not saying you stop reading or watching those movies that you like but rather throw a challenge.

What is it that makes you awaken love before it pleases?

• Could it be the books you read or the movies you watch?
• Perhaps the late-night visits to your fiancé or boyfriend hoping that you will be strong enough and nothing ‘wrong’ will happen because you are spirit filled, demon chasing and heaven bound but before you know it you are all over the other?
• Could it possibly be those juicy and romance stirring, raging hot, seductive messages that leave you undressing the other in your minds giving the enemy of lust a free playground?

The list could go on and on…

It’s interesting how Guarding love in the text is compared to a vinedresser protecting a vineyard. So therefore, when it love blooms and everything around you is telling you to go fourth now, trouble in the name of little foxes which have lasting consequences arise in the name of those little areas of compromise you neglect thus arousing love. Little pleasure of few kisses here, a little cuddle there, a once in a while romantic movies together etc. becomes the little foxes that damage your quest to not awaken love. In concluding the conversation, we are told that the vinedresser who tireless and diligently and sometimes painfully protects their vineyard will have a full reaping. In the song, she is beckoned to arise “my love, arise my beautiful one and come my way.” 2 vs 10-. 

There is a reward, so keep on darling.

And maybe you have already awakened love…does it mean that it is a done deal? By no means. In Revelation 2:7 “The Spirit of the Lord beckons us to return then to our first Love, that we had forsaken before the lampstand is removed. All He asks is that you go back to Him, submit and ask Him to mark your Heart with His seal (Songs 8vs 6) and love Him once more…

As a sister who’s “gotya” back… I adjure you too sisters, to not awaken love until its time’

Heartie Love,

Sisters’Keeper.

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