With love’s most intense zeal my beloved’s lips dripped sweetness,
“I want to make you happy, oh my love.”
Every word a delight to me and I mean every word!
“I”
“I” want to make you happy, oh my love.
She professes, “His desire is for me.” Solomon’s Song of Songs 7:10 .
Imagine your beloved Husband/husband saying something that would be consistent with letting you know that his desire was for you. What would he say? “I want to make you happy” is an expression of a man in love and who’s desire is for the good and happiness of his beloved spouse!
His desire is for her happiness. His desire is for her good and happiness!!
Right, God wants every Christian man and woman to stay virgins in both body and eyes before marriage for their happiness!! Yep!! Imagine how low the divorce rate would be in the world today if the young men in the world truly trusted God when He says, “Obedience to my commands will be your greatest delight!”
I mean, read it, and I pray you understand and know that obeying a Holy God is only a burden to those who are true Christians!! God puts it in the heart of His children a delight in obeying His commands which makes Him worthy of praise!
Psalm 112:1 “Praise the Lord. Blessed or (happy) are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands.”
and all over Psalm 119
Psalm 119:16,35,47,48,70-72,97,143
“I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word”
True delight or holy happiness is found in doing God’s will and obeying His commandments. Each spouse and person should find their better happiness in obeying God if not then you are probably not a Christian.
How is each word a sweet delight?
1 “I” Think of who it is in Christ Jesus that is telling you that they want to make you happy.
I It’s who it is that wants to make me happy. “I“. The “I” here speaking is a child of the Most High King. He is of the highest ranking in royalty here on earth! In order to truly love your Spouse/spouse you must get a right idea of who you are dating or married to!! You are getting closer to a royal child of The LORD of lords! So, it a man of the highest royal family of God who is letting you know his will and that his deepest desire is to make you happy!!
Yeah, here on earth Solomon was a king of kings and like the coming King of kings, Jesus. But Solomon was only like Jesus as it relates to royal terms. Jesus is greater than Solomon as it relates to practical royalty playing out in life. For example, Solomon ruled the kings of the earth. Therefore, the breadth of Solomon’s rule was great and reaching to the queen of the south but Solomon didn’t rule from the greatest height. God, YHWH, ruled Solomon. Solomon was not the ultimate Authority.
2 “I want” Once you have a good idea of who your beloved is in Christ, united to the highest KIng, a child of God, heir to His kingdom, holy, chosen, anointed, and on and on therefore, getting a right idea of who is dating you or who you are married to. Which helps in making a stronger bond of love in so many ways!
“want” Oh, so lovely. Here is you beloved telling you his heart. His desires. What he wants. He is being sincere and truthful in expressing his hearts desire. Isn’t it great to have someone you love tell you what they want. What makes them happy! It makes him happy to make her happy and happier for this pure and lovely motive comes from Love.
Thats two sweet words!!
3 “to” Small word, right? Yet, so sweet as well. The word “to” is after “want” thus letting us know that the desired action is what he wants to happy later or in the future. It is later than now is when he wants her to be happy. And him being the one doing it in the future. I want to. Pointing us towards what his will is. This way helping us pay attention to the next words for they tell us his will, his desire or the same is to say that he tells her what would make him happy.
4 “make” This is to produce something. He wants to produce or bring about something. He wants to make her happy! He wants to bring about her happiness. To do his best to bring about her holiness and happiness. For it is in helping her be more holy is where her true happiness lies. The holier the happier! The greater the delight in God! Imagine being miserable or unhappy. Your/your beloved wants to change that! Shouldn’t you go after and trust someone wise, good and loving to make you happy? To bring about a change for the better feelings. “As iron sharpens iron so does one friend brighten the face of other’s.”
It all to bad that too many men don’t care for the feelings of a woman. And little do they know how to do it. Look to Christ Jesus as an example. And Solomon as an example for he was a husband above 10,000 Song 5:10-12.
5 “you”
I love it! He is talking to us. Me and you. Our Beloved/beloved wants to make us happy! Us. Me!! He belongs to you and his desire is to make “you” happy. He may know some things but he must get to know “you” better before he can make her happy. He has to know what she likes and doesn’t like. It may be a learning process with stumbles and falls but if it is a true and holy flame of love then he will get better at making her happy!!
From the first verse all the way to the end of the Love poem the lovely woman is letting him know her desires and what would make her happy. “to be genuinely kissed” “over and over”. To have him draw her closer by loving her. To take her away with him. To invite her into his fellowship. To be a wise leader. Valuable lover. Precious friend. Good shepherd. And that’ just the first chapter and there are 7 more!! He knew what made “her” happy. He wanted to make “her” happy and she let him know her desires, will and feelings about things.
6 “to be happy”
Happiness is a feeling! A subjective feeling but based off of objective facts, words, actions or truths. Subjective for the feeling comes and goes and is in varying degree’s of intensity.
By the way. Making her happy pleases God for God commands us to ” love”. Love your spouse. Doing something that makes her happy is an act of love. Therefore, make her happy and God is happy or pleased. God is love. The love came from God was something of God in her and returned to God when both in the relationship are happy to please each other for love is not selfish. In making her happy, God is glorified or pleased, or his will is being done. God’s will is for us to be happy making our Beloved/beloved happy!
Men, man up and make her happy! Women, let your man know what makes you happy. We are not so smart, so you humble and gentle women out there must help your man know. For the peace, harmony and happiness of the union.
7 “oh” Used to express a feeling inside when saying the words “my love” He gets a good feeling think of the one he loves. Expressing a heightened emotion or feeling. Better than wine!
8 “my” This shows both relationship and ownership. There is a connection between him and her. She is the one he calls “my love”. And ownership. She is his. She is his to give all his love to. She belongs to him not by force but by free will. She loves him therefore, she gives herself to him freely. The two are one. She is his therefore, he says, “my” love. The two are one therefore, when he shows love to her by making her happy and holier, then he is happy. Also thus properly showing love to himself. The two are one flesh.
“husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ” Ephesians 5:28.
9 “love” Saying “my love” is similar to saying “my beloved” or the one I love. He wants her to know that she is both the one he loves and the one who loves him. My love. She is both the receiver of love and giver in the relationship.
I tended to say all this because I think way to many of us are deceived into thinking that the best things in life are outside of God commands, when nothing could be further from the truth. Just look at Solomon at the end of his life and he was trying to find happiness, and purpose in life and the wisest man alive came to the conclusion that happiness comes from doing our purpose as God’s children, which is to obey Him and keep His commands, which aren’t burdensome but a true delight!
How is each word a delight, a joy, a reason to be happy?
It’s almost like her beloved knew that it would make her happy to say to her that he wanted to make her happy. Why? For love delights in the happiness of the object of it’s affection.
How do you know the flame or feelings inside are holy, truly religious,
You know you have a good and holy flame in your heart, that good feeling, happiness, or joy. A most pure flame that pleases God is sweetly burning if that feeling comes with a delightful and humble desire to make happy and to please the One/one you love. Both Holy God and the one you love. Love in a way that is consistent with God’s will and the happiness or will of the one you love.
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