The One Year Bible - Day 249

Song of Solomon is a great book because it is both an explicit love song between men and women but it is also an intimate metaphor of a life between humans and God. The feelings that the colourful language invoke can easily be seen as those that we feel with another that we love but how much harder for us to relate to our relationship with Jesus? How often does that make us blush or feel distracted? How often do we talk about that relationship to the annoyance of others? This intimacy is available with Jesus in a spiritual way, we just have to pursue it. Love can fade in human relationships without effort, how much more so towards God?