Make Me Lovesick

(Song of Solomon 8:6-7; 14)

How long has it been since I sought You?

Do I even long to see Your face?

Has it come to a place

Where I am thankful for what You’ve done,

But never love You for who You are?

Forgive me.

Easily, time will age into a distance

Of forgetting the very reason

Why I fall on my knees. 

Do I recognize who I bow to?

You are Lord, the Sovereign One, Most High,

Above everything.  My Maker, Savior and Healer.

I remember clearly the moments You rescued me

Out of the jaws of hell’s grasp.
However…in my gratefulness, do I forget to love You?

Your grace was far more than Your ‘Rescue 911’.

In Your redemption, Your heart was jealous for me

To know You. That in a moment, time might halt

And I would recognize Your voice,

And return the gaze. 

Forgive me.

Let us be strangers no more.

Come hastily, my Groom and my worship

Will be for more than Your benefits.

Knock on my door, and I will open my bed.
I long for Your presence;

I enjoy the pleasure it is

To sit at Your feet and know You.

Gratefulness turns into adoration,

I am lovesick for You.

“Set me as a seal upon your heart,

As a seal upon your arm;

For love is as strong as death,

Jealously as cruel as the grave;

Its flames are flames of fire,

A most vehement flame.”