SS 8: Let's Make Love

Song of Solomon 8:14 "Come away, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains."

The language here is spicy, like the wine she gives her lover to drink. Although I'm sure it had nothing to do with fruit. If I had to guess, we're talking about the embrace, the act of love. Enjoying it, imbibing in it. Under the apple tree, the same way Solomon's mother Bathsheba conceived him.

Like a seal over his heart, she wants to be his one and only. She wants his devotion, in spite of all the women available to him.

The friends here apparently have a young sister, and she's not yet ready for marriage. She stands in need of the protection. Not like our girl here. Her breasts are fully grown. They are towers. And hey, this is something Solomon definitely noticed. Nothing wrong with that. Solomon's a boob-man. Those two fawns, twins of a gazelle are a thing of beauty.

I don't think verse 14 has anything to do with exploring the countryside. Remember the spice laden mountains? Yeah. They're making love. And I wonder why this subject is taboo in the church. How many sermons on Song of Solomon 8 have you heard? This reflects a God who has created human bodies to be enjoyed be the other's lover. God created and encourages physical enjoyment, physical love...as a part of the whole package, and between two committed people who have one and only one.