Echoes of Eden - Song of Songs 2.0

Um, before we jump in, um, to Echoes of Eden, um, I just want to

go just to remind you that so week one Dale spoke incredible message.

Please have a chance, if you haven't had a chance, have a listen to that.

Um, the first two words of the book of Song of Songs is these two words.

Let him, everyone say, let him.

Fascinating picture of the words, let him, A lot of the posture

around this Echoes of Eden is the idea of letting God do his work.

It's a posture of surrender.

It's a posture of giving your consent over to God.

Uh, if there's one resounding message, it's let God do his work.

So don't try so hard.

Please take the pressure off.

He's better at leading your life than you think he is.

He's more intimately involved in your life than you think he is.

He loves you more than you think he does, because his yoke is easy.

His burden is light.

So when we say Let Him, we're talking about a full yield, full, full

yield, not partial yield, full yield.

A lot of the time we talk about contending prayer or contemplative

prayer, we think about Let Him, may our prayer life be a consenting

prayer actually consenting to him.

Let Him.

Um, as we read today's section of Song of Songs, I want you to, if

you're new to this book, which many of you may be, uh, it, it, it kinda

reads from three perspectives, the She, the hymn, and the others.

Some translations call it The Bride, the Groom, and the Friends.

I, I read one this week called The Chorus.

It's an interesting use of the word, the chorus.

Um, so just understand as we read, we're reading from different

perspectives as we read this love poem together, the song of all songs.

Are you on the edge of your seats?

We're reading from chapter two, verse eight to verse 17,

and it reads like this today.

Listen, my beloved, oh, it's a girl.

Sorry, listen.

I was trying to do the girl voice.

Maybe.

I don't know.

I failed.

I failed.

I failed.

Okay, fine.

Move on.

No, listen.

My beloved look.

Here he comes.

Leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.

Look there he stands behind our wall.

Gazing through the windows.

Peering through the lattice.

My beloved spoke and said to me, arise my darling, my beautiful one.

Come with me.

See, the winter is passed.

The rains are gone.

Over and gone.

Flowers appear on the earth.

The season of singing has come.

The cooing of doves is heard in our land.

The fig trees form its early fruit.

The blossoming vines spread their fragrance arise.

Come my darling, my beautiful one.

Come with me.

Hey, my dove is in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside.

Show me your face.

Let me hear your voice.

Your voice is sweet.

Your face is lovely.

Catch for us.

The foxes.

The little foxes that ruin the vineyards.

Our vineyards are that are in bloom.

She, my beloved is mine and I am his.

He browses among the lilies until the day breaks and the shadows f flee.

Turn my beloved and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the rugged hills.

This is the word of the Lord.

Hmm.

Let's just pray.

Father, thank you that your spirit is here.

Thank you that your word is alive and active.

We wanna posture our hearts this morning, today, this week, this

month, for the rest of this year

with a surrender, with an openness, with a, with a let hymn.

Mindset heart set before you.

Father, we want to ask your spirit to come and help us to fall

in love with Jesus once again.

Soften our hearts to hear the spirit's quiet.

Whisper.

And maybe you not ignore your presence.

In Jesus' name, amen.

This week, my wife gave me a wonderful summary of the Song of

Songs and I just wanted to put it on the screen and read it to you.

And it really was helpful, Dale.

Thank you for that.

Um, it says this, the song of songs is neither a marriage

manual nor a coded allegory.

Hmm.

It is wisdom poetry that lets us overhear a love so whole and mutual, that it

echoes Eden, the unashamed intimacy you were made for before the curse.

And so points beyond itself to the heart of God whose love is for, whose

love for us is the flame of the Lord.

This is, uh, chapter eight, verse six refers to this idea of the

flame of the Lord that every human romance merely reflects.

That reference to chapter eight verse six, there, um, the flame of the

Lord, you, if you're reading the ESV, it refers to the flame of the Lord.

But it's referring to this idea that a love that is stronger than

death, that this love creates a jealousy, unyielding as the grave.

It burns like a blazing fire, like a mighty flame.

The flame of the Lord, the flame of the Lord.

So all of this pointing to perfect love is the one who is perfect love.

I wanna picture that picture the flame of the Lord.

You have a flame, but it is also a fire.

The the flame is distinctly different from the fire.

Just have that picture in your mind that this love we're experiencing

on earth is like the flame of the Lord, but he's the fire.

I think that's a, an interest, interesting picture, um, to ponder.

We preach this series to help both singles and marrieds learn the wisdom of love.

Its beauty, its boundaries, its vulnerabilities, and the deeper

love that we're all longing for.

Actually our earthly love is actually a signpost to the love that the king

has for you and I. So this posture, when we read the Song of Songs is

not a an either or, but a both.

And it gives us a lot of freedom in this book to allow God to

speak to us 'cause it's possible.

Is it possible that this book can be both ancient, semi erotic literature,

a love poem that blesses marriage, but also an image of God's love for us,

his pursuit of us at the same time?

The answer is yes.

It's both literal and allegory.

One leading to the other because Jesus is the word made flesh.

He's the inspired word of God, revealing the same love that the father has for us.

See, the deeper you dive into seeing the yearning of this perfect love

in this human experience is to be fully known and to fully know.

So this life about how we love, how we experience love, the fullness of what we

need is to love, but also to be loved.

And so that expression that.

Reality in this earthly measure is actually just pointing to a richer,

stronger, more profound experience that we have in the person of Jesus.

You'll notice the human response.

When we read these, these poems and we read the song of songs together.

You might be sitting there and you'll, you'll either lean to more of

a literal posture or you'll lean to more of an allegorical posture, right?

And it's funny, when you listen to Dale, you'll hear her leaning to one side a bit.

When you hear me, I'll be leaning to one side a bit.

When you hear Luke, you'll probably lean a slightly.

So I don't know.

You'll lean a certain way.

We'll all lean slightly different ways, and, and actually it's just recognised.

It's never easy to, to reveal both kind of literal and allegorical Simultaneously.

What you'll hear from me today is a bit more essentially allegorical pictures,

but understand that as we listen to this together, we're experiencing the fullness

of the imagery that's available to us in this, in this book, the Song of Songs.

Is that okay?

So to be clear, um, there's two threads here.

First thread is this, echoes of Eden.

How do we see this picture of Genesis, picture of the garden revealed?

And also the second thread is the signposts to God's heart.

So firstly, this echoes of Eden.

Um, the song keeps sounding a little bit like Genesis one and two,

the garden, the Nakedness Without Shame, the mutual Delight, a man

and woman in unbroken communion.

The song reads through something of the fall that has been healed.

So we ask, where do we hear Eden in this passage?

And why is it so important to to hear Eden through this passage?

'cause one way of describing the narrative of scripture is, we're all of us, all

of us children of God, we're all on our way back returning to the garden.

I dunno if you heard that phrase before.

Returning to the way God always intended it to be.

This song, let us tastes it.

Let us taste what Eden is like.

It it wets our appetite for what is coming for now.

Um, the journey back to the garden.

This, this, I kind of saw it phrased like this in this next slide.

Returning to the garden is a journey from shame to being seen.

We no longer need fig leaves because we are clothed in Christ.

Looking on with the who looks on us with delight, we go from hiding to

drawing near God's voice is no longer something that we fear, uh, but the

voice of the beloved calling out to us from grasping to belonging.

I am my beloveds replaces the bent desire to control and to possess.

And then from exile to home, we live in the already, but the not yet tasting the

garden from time to time in this earthly experience, in worship, in love, in the

spirit of God, but then all the while long, still dealing with the foxes in the

vineyard and the knights of searching.

So firstly, it's the threat, the echoes of heaven.

And secondly, it's a signposts to the heart of God because human

love, every earthly romance is a reflection, not a substitute for the

divine love that stands behind it.

I really like that sentence and I, that's why I put her

on a slide for you to read it.

Every earthly romance is a reflection, not a substitute.

Did you hear that?

For divine love that stands behind it, marriage is good, but non

ultimate, it is given to enlarge our capacity and vocabulary for the

love that is stronger than death.

So we ask why is this important?

What does this reveal about God?

Who is the source of all love?

What does this reveal about his heart?

I've got a few points to tell you about this one.

On this second point.

I think I've got six.

Yes.

Don't worry, I'm only gonna rip through them.

So why is this important to see God's heart?

Because it change When we, when we see God, how he really is,

and we are changed about how we see God, it changes how we pray.

Generally, we can carry a picture of God that is distant, reluctant, transactional,

someone who must be persuaded to show up.

This passage shows us that God is already coming over the hills.

Everybody, he's already at the window, he's already calling, and prayer becomes

a response to his approach rather than attempt to get his attention.

Secondly, it frees human love from an impossible weight.

If romance and marriage is the ultimate love, then a spouse has to be everything.

The one who crosses the mountain sees us completely,

who never leaves us in the dark.

No human can bear the entire weight of that.

It leads to disappointment, idolatry.

But when marriage is understood as a reflection of divine love,

it can be enjoyed for what it is.

It's good, it's real, but it's not God.

The flame is pre, is precious, precisely because it points to the fire.

I'll say that again.

The flame is precious precisely because it points to the fire.

Number three, it makes our deepest love available to everyone.

Human romance is a signpost, not a destination.

So the single, the widow, the divorce, the lonely, you're not shut out of the song.

You're not limited.

The love points to a voice calling to all of us Arise My love.

It's spoken to every single one of God's children.

Marriage gives us one vocabulary for what is love, but it's

not the only door into it.

Number four, it gives meaning to seasons of distance.

The passage ends in shadows and absence, and yet there's confidence.

There's confidence that love is still here.

Dry seasons, hidden faces, long nights don't mean God has stopped loving.

Actually, they're part of the story that he's still writing.

The dawn is promised.

I've been writing a bit of poetry lately.

I love with this song of songs and stuff 'cause it's so, the pictures, it

gives the imagery, it gives it's rich.

The dawn is promised, my friends, the dawn is promised.

Next.

It teaches us how to love others.

This is how God loves.

And it becomes a pattern for our own marriages, our own

connections and friendships.

Where we take initiative, where we come near to others without

coercing speaking, words of delight, seeing beauty in the people around

us who are still hiding, guarding what is fragile, giving ourselves,

staying faithful through the night.

And we don't generate that love for ourselves from ourselves.

We receive it first and then we pass it on.

And lastly, it points to the end of the story, points to the end of the story.

The songs until the day breathes is longing for a dawn.

That scripture promises the marriage of the lamb, the

dwelling of God with his people.

The face finally seen where no shadow is left.

Revelations 21.

Every human love that is best is the smallest rehearsal for that day because

that day is coming where a love stronger of death carries a quiet promise that

death does not have the final word.

Friends.

So I wanna go back, um, and just kinda move through from verses eight to 17.

So you have, you got your Bible in front of you.

I'm not gonna put the scripture on screen.

I, I'd love you to kind of follow along if you've got your phone out.

This is Song of Songs chapter two verse eight, and I'm just gonna make some

comments just as we move through these.

I just really want some of the, the, the imagery to land

on your hearts this morning.

And it starts in that verse eight picture.

Listen, my beloved look, here he comes, leafing across the

mountains, bounding over the hills.

First thing she hears is not her own longing, but his approach

he loves starts with him.

It's her observing this, but it's not her initiating this love starts with him.

And the mountains, just so you know, between them, they're not barriers.

They're what he leaps over.

This is the shape of the whole gospel.

God crossing the distance that we could not cross, and in the incarnation, the

cross, the spirit coming to dwell with us.

He loves because we love, because he first loved us.

In verse nine, this idea of he comes near, but he doesn't force his way in.

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.

Look there he stands behind the wall, gazing through the windows,

peering through the lattice.

So he's close enough to see her, but he waits.

See, divine love is strong, but it's not coercive.

It invites to see in rather than overpowering us, which is

the same as this gentleness.

Revelations three 20 talks about that picture of here.

I stand at the door and knock.

It's not forcing the door open.

It's a invitation.

God wants a response freely given because only freely given.

Love is love only freely given.

Love is love.

Verse 10, and I'm gonna throw in verse 13 as well.

In this little point where he speaks and calls, says, my beloved spoken, said to

me, arise my darling, my beautiful one.

Come with me.

That phrase, arise, my darling, my beautiful one come with me,

reflected twice there in verse 10 and verse 13, come away with me.

If you wanted a title for today's message, you could call it, come Away with me.

The invitation is repeated at the beginning and the end of this moment.

God is not silent or merely observed.

He addresses us personally by name, a term of endearment.

His call is outward.

He says, away from the familiar, the comfortable into where there is new.

Where I am.

He calls he speaks.

Verse 11 to 13.

See, the winter is past.

The rains are over and gone.

Flowers appear on the earth.

The season of singing has come.

The cooing of the doves is heard in our land.

Ah, imagery's strong.

See, the winter is passed.

The rain's gone.

He's the one who declares that a new season has in fact arrived.

All things are new.

He's turning back the curse and turning us towards his garden.

See, love isn't just sentiment.

It brings life.

It changes the world around us.

He announces a new season.

I think I've got a slide of these small points.

Have I in sort of point form, have I?

Yes.

Thank you.

Number five.

Here he longs for our face and voice.

He longs for our face and voice in verse 14, my dove in the clefts of the rock,

in the hiding places of the mountainside.

Show me your face.

Let me hear your voice.

For your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

She is hiding.

I dunno if you picked that up in when you read that.

She's hiding in the clefts of the rock, but he doesn't scold her.

He calls her lovely while she's still hidden.

See this?

This is Genesis three imagery.

'cause there was a place where Adam hid in fear of God's voice in Genesis three.

But God doesn't merely tolerate our presence.

He desires it.

He's longing for it.

He wants our real face, our real voice, not your false self, not your performance.

I hope you see that it's a slightly hidden picture there as we move on.

He guards the love.

He guards the love.

In verse 15, catch the foxes for us.

The little foxes that spoil the vineyard for our vineyards are in blossom.

Love is in bloom.

When love is in bloom, it's actually vulnerable and he

cares about protecting it.

Notice that the idea is for us, it's like a shared work.

It's not just him doing the protecting.

We are both doing the protecting.

He's calling us into that space.

God deals with what would spoil our communion with him, but he invites us

into partner with him, attending to the small compromises, the small distractions

that are quietly damaging the vine.

Verse 16, he gives himself to be had.

Verse 16, we read, my beloved is mine and I am his.

He browses among the lilies.

It's remarkable that God allows himself to be claimed.

Remember who we're talking about here?

We're talking about God and he's allowing himself to be

told that my beloved is mine.

This is, this is covenant language.

I will be your God and you will be my people.

Jeremiah 31, it's, it's an infinite God binding himself to us.

He's not only ours to obey, he's ours to have.

And lastly, verse 17, as we kind of jump through this a little quickly,

he's faithful through the night.

Oh, thank you, Lord, that you're faithful through the night until

the day breaks and the shadows flee.

Turn my beloved and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the rugged hills.

The passage ends, not at dawn, but kinda like before it there, the, there's

still shadows and still distance, yet she knows he will come again,

like a gazelle over the mountains.

God's love holds through the, not yet, but carries the promise

that the shadows will flee.

So one of the things I'm hoping is seeing through this section,

verses eight to 17, is that behind the passage, there's a God who is

pursuing patient speaking, renewing, desiring, protecting, self-giving.

He's faithful.

Every true, true human love catches a spark of this, which is why the

song is called The Very Flame of God.

It calls Love the very flame of the Lord, and the Lord is the fire.

How'd you go with that?

I just felt as I was just sharing those verses.

The part of what happens when we read this kind of literature, what it's doing if

you allow it to, is there's a sense that, like will you allow this to melt you?

Like will you allow a process of softening to to happen or is there

a sense in you that nah, nah, nah, nah, I don't want to go that soft.

I don't want to go that vulnerable.

I don't want to go that like open.

And if you're in that place, I say that not because of judgement or

condemnation, but to recognise that is a normal human response when

we've been injured by intimacy.

When we've been close to others and there's been something that

has wounded, there's a very much a tendency to, to close up.

And we, I think we do that with others first and foremostly.

But what we're doing simultaneously is we can do that with our

connection with our father.

And so if you're finding that strange tension as we read through this poetry,

that is meant to woo your heart.

And you're feeling that rub.

I wanna let you know it's okay.

But may you pray, God soften my heart.

He wants to pursue you.

He wants to woo you.

He does the heavy lifting.

So there's this one line in verse 16.

I kind of wanna linger on as we gently bring this home today.

I've got the verse 16 up there and hopefully it look familiar to you 'cause

we've read it a few times already.

It says this, my beloved is mine and I am his.

This phrase is a fascinating phrase because we cease this phrase.

Written three different times in the entire book of the Song of Songs, but

each time it's slightly different.

There's similar renditions of this line across the whole book three times.

And there's a progression in how those statements are made, and this

has been something that has really.

Spoken to me over the last bit of time in relationship to the journey

that my heart is on, and I'm hoping it will reverberate with you today.

So we see this in Song of Songs, chapter two, verse 16.

My beloved is mine and I am his.

And um, I'll just reveal to you where the other two are as well in this next slide.

So in chapter six, verse three, I'll read it to you.

It says it slightly differently.

It says, I am my beloveds and my beloveds is mine.

I have to work that out.

Might hurt your head a little bit.

When you read that, essentially what is is, it's flipped, right?

And then the next one is, I am my beloveds and his desire is for me.

So just firstly the first one, right?

Just to be extra clear.

Um, the emphasis here is, here is what I have.

Okay?

Remember this is, this, is she speaking?

Okay.

In verse 16, it's she speaking.

The bride is speaking.

She starts with possession.

See, he belongs to her as a primary beginning point, and then he

belong, and then she adds to that.

She belongs to him.

So it's true and joyful, but her enjoyment comes first.

In the first statement.

See, the relationship is real positioned legal, right?

But you have a sense in that first statement that there's more, it's not yet

settled, and then we move on to the second time it's said and it's flipped, right?

I'm my beloveds and my beloved is mine.

The same two halves appear, but the order is reversed.

Now her identity comes first.

She belongs to him.

Her claim on him is still there, but it comes second.

Do you see that?

Her security now rests in belonging to him not holding onto him.

And then in the third reference in Song of Songs, chapter seven verse 10, I am

my beloved and his desire is for me, the phrase, my beloved is mine has vanished.

It's gone completely.

She's no longer talking about possessing him at all.

She simply rests in belonging to him and is longing for her.

And this follows the fullest and most detailed praise that he gives her In

chapter seven, verses one to nine, she has been seen completely, so all of her

has been seen and she's delighted in.

Her answer isn't to grasp, but to rest.

Interesting word, isn't it?

And his desire is, for me, it's here.

We get a little bit of an Echo of Eden again and focusing our attention

on that word desire is the word te.

Jewish word, Hebrew word.

And uh, it only appears, uh, twice in the rest of the Bible.

This word in Genesis three 16 and another plot time in, um, Genesis four, seven.

But it says, your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you.

Now, before we go any further, Genesis three 16 is the curse the fall.

Okay?

Immediately you hear that and you, those who are taking it outta context, you

immediately have a reaction, won't you?

You see what I mean?

Don't you?

'cause it, it reads a pretty heavy duty.

Your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you.

What's being described here is the curse, okay?

Please don't miss this.

It's what's being described here is not the the good desire or it's, it's the

broken, it's the injured desire dynamic.

And here we are in the Song of Songs where the curses distortion about desire

is being turned around in the song.

The desire belongs to him and is directed towards her.

There is no ruling or dominating.

It's only love.

Please don't miss that.

The song of Songs is, is almost giving us a response to the

brokenness within Genesis.

Genesis, the curse, the fallen nature.

No good there.

Oh, but praise God.

I have a redemption in the person of Jesus, and there's a love

that's enduring will last forever.

He doesn't dominate over me.

He loves me.

He woos me.

He softens my heart and I surrender because I'm safe.

That's the kind of love that's being described here.

Just to double, double down on this, this little table I've built

with these three kind of dynamics.

And the first one, the focus is he's mine.

Enjoying what I have.

This is good, but there's more.

This, uh, chapter six, verse three, I'm his, now I'm resting and not what

I have, but in whose I am seven 10.

His desire is for me, forgetting myself in his love.

Like lost you.

Anyone ever been in love in this place before?

Mate, we're a dreary bunch, aren't we?

I'm talking about your heart's melted.

Yeah.

Once, here we go.

I remember we did, uh, pre-marriage counselling and this very

young, uh, in some ways, um, I don't know how to describe it.

Idealistic said, oh, that honeymoon phases, it's never gonna end.

It's gonna last forever.

That, that's a lovely thought.

Correct.

Of course, we want that.

But who knows that the emotions of marriage or any

relationships like this Yeah.

Rollercoaster.

They're not having a good time right now.

But then we praise God when the emo, when the feelings and the emotions are there.

Right.

And they're right things, they're good things.

They're healthy things that God has given us a gift for us.

Right.

And so I think part of this journey in relationship to how do we relate to God?

Like we can understand legally positionally in Christ.

I'm a new creation in Christ.

I am.

I'm His.

He is mine.

It's not like their first step.

And then it's like, no, no, it's not about what I have in Christ.

It's actually now I belong to him.

I'm his.

I'm his cherished possession.

But now I'm the third level of this is not like I'm, uh, I've just put

up with God just puts up with me.

No, he's desiring me.

He's like hungry as for me.

That's a different level, right?

How are you gonna live when you are desired for?

Maybe some ladies here might understand what that looks like.

I hope so.

I actually hope so because there's something very precious

about experiencing that.

But please, as I say that, please know that if you're single and lonely, this

desiring of God for you is available to every single one of us, regardless of

your relational status in this earth.

'cause it's, what is it?

It's only all pointing to what the love of the father for us.

But I wanna say, forgetting myself in his love.

Does that sound free to you?

Like not free, as in it's very costly.

Jesus gave his life for this, but does that sound like a

posture of freedom for you?

Forgetting yourself?

Oh, I've forgotten myself.

You know what I mean?

When you see kids down the front, do you notice what's going on?

They're very quick to forget themselves.

Gimme a route ribbon.

Yes.

Rip it.

Because I'm not so in tune with my own self-consciousness.

No, I've forgotten myself.

Why?

They're loved.

They know they're loved.

They come down the front and look like very strange people.

I wanna see an adult come down here and just like lay on the

ground and you know, feel at home.

Children.

Just know parents, desire them, desire them.

I want you, you are mine.

That's what is true.

The question is, do we, do we experience that walk of Jesus like that?

I started with those two words.

Let him let him.

Let him desire you.

Let him hold you where you melt in the father's arms.

And now we can see why.

Look at who does the moving in the passage.

He's the one who comes leaping over the mountains.

He stands at the wall, he speaks, he calls, he declares.

Winter is over.

He longs to see her face.

She doesn't climb the mountain to get to him.

Her part is to hear, to arise, to let him to come.

That journey.

Back to the garden in Eden, after the fall, Adam Heards God's

voice and he hid among the trees.

But in the song, she hears his voice and says, listen, my

beloved, something's been healed.

And that healing is what God does in each of us, moving us from hiding to being seen

from shame, to delight to grasping, to from grasping, to belonging from his mine,

to I am His, to His desire is for me.

So question, where are, where are you at in the passage today?

'cause there's some very interesting positions that

this passage points out to us.

You see, some of us are behind the wall.

You're aware that God's close, but you're not sure you want to open the window.

Some of you're in the clefts of the rock hiding because we think if he really saw

our face, he wouldn't call it lovely.

Hear him.

Your voice is sweet.

Your face is lovely.

He says that.

Wow.

You're still hiding.

Some of you're in the long winter and you need to hear

him say, see, winter's passed.

He often announces the new season before we can see it.

Some of you attending a vineyard in Bloom and there's still little

foxes around and you know you need to deal with them, but you're not.

And Sam are in the night waiting for the day to break, for the shadows to flee.

He hasn't stopped loving you.

The dawn is promised.

Again, I just wanna reiterate this.

If you're married, your love is a flame of the Lord and the Lord is the fire.

Treasure it, guard it.

But don't ask your spouse to be God.

Let them be a signpost to him.

If you're single, widowed, divorced, or lonely, you are not outside of this song.

The voice saying, arise my darling, my beautiful one.

Come with me.

That's to you.

You're invited into the deepest love that there is.

So I just want you to bow your heads, close your eyes just for a minute.

Just gonna give us a couple of moments.

You don't have to try hard today.

Let him.

Listen for his voice.

Day, father, we.

We put words to her hearts today.

We say thank you, Jesus, that I can even say the words.

My beloved is mine.

Holy Spirit, calm to all of us and reveal that I am my beloveds.

And Spirit may saturate our hearts today.

To recognise that your desire is for me.

Longing to be with me.

Your longing for my heart.

I'll let you in today.

I let you.

Be close.

In Jesus' name, amen.