Seeking Love

Song of Solomon 3:1-3

[The Shulamite] By night on my bed 

I sought the one I love;
 I sought him, but I did not find him. 
"I will rise now," [I said],
"And go about the city;
in the streets and in the squares I will seek the one I love." 
I sought him, but I did not find him.
The watchmen who go about the city found me;
[I said], "Have you seen the one I love?

“Night” in the original Hebrew is plural; the Shulamite has sought him for many nights, and does not understand why it is so, but the Lord is capitalizing on her feelings for him, to draw her out and into his plan and purpose. She sought him in the bed and did not find him; she sought him in the streets and in the squares and did not find him; but we see the heart of a Believer in her seeking, and it is moving toward him. This is a picture of us; by faith we move forward in his plan; we move toward him, worshiping him who we cannot see.
She is not content to stay on her bed and wait, and want, and wish; when she cannot find him she goes seeking, and we who believe are ever seeking him also, for the promise is: "If you seek me you will find me." Wherever we go we ask: “Have you seen the one I love? Have you met him along the way? Do you know where he can be found? Do you know him? Oh, he is the one my soul loves! Do you know about him? If ever you did you would understand why I search.”
But we carry the testimony of God and his love with us, and we meet many who respond to it, for he has put them in the way and prepared the way—the hearts—and many are encouraged in his faith. This is where we find him; not in our bed, but in going forward in his great plan and purpose to take the Gospel of His love into the highways and hedges of the world of the lost. ^{(Mt 22:9-10; Lu 14:23)} What better way could there be to send his love to the lost, than to send it in a soul he loves? What wisdom this is? Seeking him, but finding the lost, and him in the process. So often we think we minister him to people, but we find that he ministers to us through people. We seek the one our soul loves, and we find him in loving souls that are lost. "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." ^{(Lu 19:10)} There are watchmen out in the world watching you, and they will find you; they think they’re not seeking anything at all, but their hearts actually are, and God is seeking them ^{(2Ch 16:9)} But they find her—the Shulamite—who has a heart that is loaded with Love and this love is ever contagious and spontaneous to save souls.