"Overpowered!" -2

"Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick with love." (S.O.S. 2:5)

  This is something special about this love, besides being that of a longing, it is also the type of love that requires action. Which, if you are interested in exploring, the passion that drives a person to dig into something that they want to know more, is very close to this kind of action; it is much like the love someone might have towards art, as they are fixated upon what might have been going through the heart of the artist, making it more and more a living object.
  There is only so far you can go, if you stop and think about it; because this type of love, although it has an interest in exploring, it is also that required action that limits the power that it yields. In other words, if there is a lack of action, it has conditions that are not being met. This is the same type of love that is mentioned in the previous verse, that says, "and his banner of me was love," which being in the past tense has the sense of looking back.
  If you really stop and think about what this implies, you can see the serious consequences this might lead to within the church; as it has been, time and time again, looking back at what God did and trying to make the experience happen again. "Back in the Jesus movement," is the term that comes to mind, as we hear it used regarding the period of time a half-century ago.
  I would like to see God move again, but I think the love required for that to happen needs to be a little more fixed and harder to move, if you know what I mean. This modern movement is one that wants to see action, as it prefers the work that be shown, over the knowledge of who God is and what He is about. That said, this type of love is good for that too, if that is, we are willing to rest and be satisfied with getting to know Him!
  This is a very fine line, whether we can accept it or not, we are the vessel God uses; His hands and feet, if you will, that cannot move or function without the Head making them move: otherwise those hands and feet are out of control and as useless as any vessel might be that tries to fill itself. If we had to do something as a vessel, comparatively speaking, it would that we be willing to be filled. The way Matthew Henry put this, he says, "Note, Those that are sick of love to Christ shall not want spiritual supports, while they are yet waiting for spiritual comforts."
  What do we want more of: To know the love, or to see what His love can do? Because if that is the case, that deed was already done...

"Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." (Romans 8:12-14)