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In the last blog post, we saw that at the beginning of our walk with God, we are weak but lovely. The book of Song of Songs is a beautiful picture of the Bride and how we start out our relationship with Jesus. We see how her love matures over time and ends with Jesus placing a seal of fire on her heart that cannot be quenched. Today, we are going to focus on the seal of fire.
At the beginning of this 8-chapter love song, the maiden cries out for Jesus to give her the kisses of His mouth, or the kisses of His Word.
Song of Songs 1:2
Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth—
for Your love is more delightful than wine.
At the end of the book, we see how the Bride has matured and her commission.
Song of Songs 8: 5-7
Friends: Who is this coming up from the wilderness leaning on her beloved?
Him: Under the apple tree I roused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who was in labor gave you birth. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
God’s purpose is to provide an eternal companion for His Son. This is where we see that Jesus is not only our inheritance, but we are His! God wanted to create a people who would love His Son the same way He loves her. You see, at the end of days, all creation will bow down in obedience to God. We know this from the verse that says: “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is LORD.” At this point, people don’t have a choice. They WILL bow and confess that Jesus is Lord. But there will be a portion of those who actually love Him by choice. We need the power of God to love God.
This seal on the heart is a flame of God’s fire. It is so powerful that no power in the natural realm can overpower it. Even water cannot put out this kind of fire. Many waters of sin and trials, this fire cannot be quenched.
This is a promise. He wants us to set our hearts on and actively participate to receive this seal. This seal is a progressive seal, and it releases more as we surrender to it. It begins when we receive Jesus, and it progressively transforms and grows – forever.
The study of Song of Songs is a call for one thing. It is the Spirit and the bride saying, “Come, Lord Jesus.” Jesus is calling the bride to invite Him to be the seal on our hearts. He will not force us to love Him. He calls us to invite Him to come and allow Him to love us in this way. He wants us to know Him as the God of jealous love. He demands that all of our hearts be His, and then it exhilarates us. When we give up everything to love Him like it talks about in Song of Songs, 8:7, it would be preposterous to boast in that. His love is the reward itself. Jesus empowers us to love Him and to love others.
Jesus says, “set me as a seal.” He says that the love He will impart to you will be as strong as death. It will be as all-consuming in its demands as death is. Everything dies. Nobody and nothing escapes the power of death. He’s saying, “My love is as demanding as death is.” As nothing can outrun death, so nothing can outrun my love. It is far more powerful than addictions, bondage, or sickness.
The jealousy of divine love is cruel or unrelenting and demanding. He is the living flame of love. If we walk in his light, He gives us more and more. Nothing escapes the grasp of jealous love. Whatever darkness is in your heart, his love is more consuming than even that.
This jealousy is not a negative jealousy. It is of love and light. He knows that it will cause our spirit to rejoice.
He wants us to love him in the same way He loves us. When he asks you to love Him with all of your mind, soul, heart and strength, He isn’t asking you to do something that He hasn’t first done for us. He loves us the same way that he asks us to love Him!
Can you imagine? God loves us with all His mind. That’s the mind that created the universe and the galaxies. That’s the mind that created every intricate part of creation. That’s mind-blowing in itself! He loves us with all His strength. All his soul and all his heart.
God will not relent until he has all of us. He won’t relent until he has it all, like the song. The unity with Jesus is the seal of love he places on our hearts. That is our greatest calling – to love Him. That is what I have learned through this study. It’s not about the “stuff” we do for him. It’s just like Mary sitting at Jesus’ feet. We need to have both: service and love. But the greater call is love.
And that’s the beauty of love! When we love Him as He loves us, we will naturally overflow with love for others. We will naturally serve others!
If we yield to God’s love, it will overtake us – and we can have it now! We don’t have to wait until we die and go to be with him. We can have it in this age, not just the age to come. (Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.) We can look at the flood of darkness that was foretold to come in the end times and see it through the fiery seal on our hearts, knowing that not even that flood can put it out.
The ‘wealth of our house’ is not just finances. It is our honor and character, our legacy. Paul said he gave all those things up, counting them as rubbish compared to the love of God.
I believe that God is calling us to return to our First Love in this season. There have been many distractions and trials during the past year, and it would be foolish to say that they are over just because we have entered a new year. But even in all these things, we can have confidence in Him. We can place our trust in Him. It’s time to turn our attention and affections back to Jesus. He is the only one who can fill the hole in our hearts. Loving Him is the greatest reward we could ask for.
I encourage you to go through the full study with Mike Bickle at https://mikebickle.org/series/The-Song-of-Songs-(2007). I promise you won’t be disappointed!
