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RADICAL LOVE

I know that for some people, the level of intimacy that God desires may

make us feel uncomfortable, but there is no other illustration available
that conveys such depth of God’s love and His desire for us to know

Him. He designed the sexual act between husband and wife to be a
mutually pleasurable experience, where each person—vulnerable

before the other—becomes so entwined that they become one flesh.

This is a description, albeit in a totally spiritual sense, of what God’s
plan is for us.

How is God vulnerable, you may ask? He is vulnerable because He
became a man and was bruised, battered, and crucified on our behalf.

He is vulnerable because His love is unconditional and open to abuse
from the very ones He poured Himself out for.

In verse 4, she exhorts her Beloved to draw her to Himself. She has

tasted and seen that the Lord is good, and now she wants to be drawn
to Him—drawn from the hustle and bustle of the world, drawn from

her comfort zone, drawn from fleshliness that cannot satisfy like He
can. She is entreating Him to take her out and away from everything

that would hinder intimacy, and also hinder the laying hold of that for

which Christ took hold of her (see Philippians 3:12–14).

And yet, we cannot come into this place of desiring to be drawn to Jesus

unless we receive His grace and the Holy Spirit’s power. This in itself
should cause us to love Him more. We can only truly love and worship

Jesus to the extent that we have received a revelation of His love and

nature as a person. We can’t love a religion, a concept, or a doctrine—

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