April 29. 2025-Meditation , Song of Songs 6:13–8:4 Love Overflowing and Surging

 Song of Songs 6:13–8:4

Love Overflowing and Surging

Everyone desires to love only one person when it comes to love. In the relationship between a man and a woman, each wants the other to look only at them. No one likes it when their beloved turns their eyes to someone else or gives their heart to something else. It’s not acceptable.

The Song of Songs describes the relationship between “God” and the “Church,” and between “Jesus Christ” and “Christians,” using the imagery of romantic love. If that’s the case, shouldn’t this also apply to our relationship with God?

Yet, in our love, we often turn our eyes to other things and let our hearts be stolen away. If we expect God to love us exclusively while we ourselves fail to do the same, isn’t that a contradiction?

In today’s passage, Song of Songs 6:13 says:

“Return, return, O Shulammite; return, return, that we may gaze upon you!
Why should you gaze upon the Shulammite as on the dance of Mahanaim?”

The bridegroom does not want others to watch his bride dance. He wants her dance to be for him alone.

This is how God’s love is. God desires that our every movement be directed toward Him alone. He wants our verbal expressions of love to be for Him alone. He wants us to praise Him alone. That’s why Deuteronomy 4:24 says:

“For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.”

God does not want His people to give their hearts to idols. He does not want His people to dance or sing praises before idols. He wants our hearts to be directed only to Him and our dances of praise to be offered only to Him.

Continuing on to Song of Songs 7:10:

“I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.”

This verse expresses the mutual love between the bride and the bridegroom. The word translated as “belong” here is dod (דּוֹד), which in this context means “to love toward” or “love for.” The same word appears in Song of Songs 2:16 and 6:3, and again here in 7:10. This love is not one-sided but mutual.

God’s love toward us never changes. He is always faithful. Therefore, we must reflect on what kind of love we hold toward Him.

We must turn our eyes, which have been stolen by the world, back to God. We must fix our gaze solely on God and no longer look to other things. This is the kind of love God desires from us. So if we are God’s children, His people, and the holy bride of Jesus Christ, then our lives must be dedicated to pursuing this love.

Finally, Song of Songs 8:4 says:

“Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you:
Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.”

This means that love between the two should not be disturbed by anything else. It is a love for the bridegroom alone and for the bride alone.

Today, we live in this world as the bride of Christ. Yet the world is full of things that can easily steal our hearts. But a Christian with true love must not turn their eyes to other things or give their heart elsewhere. We must fix our gaze solely on Jesus Christ, on the Word of God, and give our hearts to Him alone. May we live as Christians who love like this.