Awaken Love

Song of Solomon 2:7 Oh, let me warn you, sisters in Jerusalem, by the gazelles, yes, by all the wild deer: Don't excite love, don't stir it up, until the time is ripe - and you're ready.

I've heard my good evangelical friends use this verse and others to support a chaste life before marriage. It's a really sweet translation, but the Song of Solomon is anything but chaste. Maybe one could make a good argument for the Shulamite's chastity, but what about Solomon? That dude was anything but. This book is a reference for the passion and love that God intended between a man and a woman, but as with most things in the Bible, is also intended as a picture of something else. If you can't read it and be able to look through sex and passion in order to see the bigger picture, maybe you need to reevaluate the gift of sex. Sex is absolutely pure in God's design, and shouldn't be a hindrance to hearing what the Spirit is saying to the Church.

I didn't want to talk about sex. I want to talk about awakening. I do want to protect my daughters until they are of age from giving their heart or their body away. Waiting until they are fully ready is absolutely important. When it comes to the Church, no time is too early. 

It's time to wake up. Time to rouse ourselves. Stop sleeping. Wake up, wake up, wake up!!! Awaken love! Awaken your passion for Jesus! Do whatever it takes!! Spend two minutes at His feet and the time will grow. Looking and behaving like a good little Christian is absolutely useless to yourself, others and Jesus. Everything should hinge on love for Him. Stop trying to be obedient to the rules. Be obedient to pursuit. 

The time is ripe. We are ready.