Saturday 22 Jul 2023

July 22: Song of Solomon 3:1-5

Key Verse: Song of Solomon 3:5
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.

Devotion:
I have caught myself thinking about past loves a few times over the past month or so, so when I read these verses I began to think more about our modern world and the relationships we hold in it. So many films and stories we hear and see are about people falling in love, out of love, splitting up, and obviously all the wars – but is our world so different to the past?

There obviously were people who split up and argued in the past, lots of wars too and some of those stories got into our bibles because God wants us to think about what we are doing. God gave us stewardship of this planet and we have not done a very good job in my mind; we are all guilty of breaking it in one form or another. Is this the way to treat the gift God has given us?

Jesus came and reminded us the at the centre of everything is love. Without love we cannot hope to care for each other or the world. If we treat love like a disposable asset, then we are treating the whole world as a disposable asset… but with love we can gather together the overcome the things which separate ourselves from others.

God wants us to seek out love in all aspects in life and to not jump at desires and wants, but to seek out the love which can last upon which we can build better communities and a better society as a whole. When we see the love Christ showed us we should aim to reach as close to that love as we can in our lives.

Points to Ponder:
How many times have you been ‘in love’?

Will you allow God to guide you in your life?