In these particular verses the Heavenly Bridegroom, our Lord Jesus Christ, is speaking of how fair and how pleasant His Bride is, with all of her delights. He is speaking in the context of marital love. His delights in this passage are related to His spiritual fellowship with her. Specifically, we will find, as I will apply it to you, from these verses, that He is enamored with her stature, her breasts, and her breath, her mouth, and her lips. Sounds like the romantic love you find in marriage, doesn’t it? Actually, in this passage, Christ is speaking of a spiritual romantic love. It is a deep, and powerful, and perfect love which Christ has for His whole Universal Church, and it is translated into the particular love that He has for each person who savingly believes in Him. I believe that it will be very beneficial to the cultivation of fellowship with Christ, if you will begin to think of Him in this holy and exciting way; as the One who because He gave Himself for you on the cross, He is now caught up with you, in this spiritual love relationship; so much so, that He is excited about seeing you grow up into Him, your risen living Head. He is looking for your exercise of faith in Him, and is He taking notice of every loving act of obedience that proceeds from your faith in Him. So let us pray now, to see the love of Christ more clearly in this time of our examination of these spiritual realities, so that we will in every way be learning to please the One who has loved us; the One who is loving us, in such a magnificent way.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...