Our culture today tells us "get as much pleasure as you can, for if you are happy in this moment, then your life is worth living."
Oftentimes...no...most times, what our culture means is...get physical pleasure, all you want, and lots of it. It's true - just look around at advertisements or watch a TV show, guaranteed, it'll center somehow around this. But...what does the the Word have to say about this?
SOS 2:7
"...do not arouse or awaken my love until she pleases."
SOS 4:12
"A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a rock garden locked, a spring sealed up."
Solomon delights in the fact that his bride has not been out in the world to experience all she could - while she could. He in no way wants for her to have "opened her garden" to whomever, whenever. Her romantic passion is precious to him and he knew that to awaken it before the proper time was not of God. I pray that we would know this too, despite the enemy's constant attempts to make us believe otherwise.
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