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RADICAL LOVE
Jerusalem love and adore Him—because He is worthy and His name is
pleasing.
This verse (verse 3) also highlights the importance of truly knowing
who Jesus is. John 17:3 says:“Eternal life means to know and
experience You as the only true God and to know and experience Jesus
Christ as the Son whom You have sent.”
The word for “know” in Hebrew is yada, and it is used on occasion to
describe sexual intimacy between a man and his wife. For example, in
Genesis 4:1, it says that Adam “knew” his wife.
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
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