{"id":7194,"date":"2020-11-13T19:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T01:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2023-12-14T19:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T01:25:06","slug":"devotional-on-song-of-songs-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-song-of-songs-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Song of Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kcF20kAoXS4\/X62rvAEuytI\/AAAAAAABHls\/P8eM6_KmFEM7VfaEIMzvY5K5TvOXHV4JgCPcBGAsYHg\/s400\/11garden_of_gods.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2003 &#8211; Colorado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The power of love<br \/>\nSong of Songs 4: You looked at me, and I fell in love. One look my way and I was hopelessly in love!<br \/>\nPreviously I mentioned that some Christians have made this book into an allegory of Christ&#8217;s love for the Church. As I said then, I&#8217;m not all that convinced, although passages like this do remind me of scriptures like Ephesians 4 where I\u2019m told that: &#8220;Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy&#8230;and to present her to himself as a radiant church&#8230; holy and blameless.&#8221; That passage describes Christ&#8217;s passionate love for the Church, a love that takes him to the cross. In the portion of Song of Songs that&#8217;s before me today, the man describes the power of his love for the woman. In Ephesians I see the power of Christ&#8217;s love for the Church. Whether or not Song of Songs is intended to connect me to Christ and his love for us, I\u2019m reminded in this passage of the power of love and the sacrifice one who loves is willing to make for his beloved.<br \/>\nTake Away: \u201cLove\u201d is, ultimately, an action word\u2026real love takes action on behalf of the one who is loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power of love Song of Songs 4: You looked at me, and I fell in love. One look my way and I was hopelessly in love! Previously I mentioned that some Christians have made this book into an allegory of Christ&#8217;s love for the Church. As I said then, I&#8217;m not all that convinced, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1943,7],"tags":[691,939,1009,1010,1072],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17038,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions\/17038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}