Nancy DeMoss Woglemouth asks,

Is your heart full of love for Christ?

So many of us who have a theological love for God

that has never reached the depths of our hearts.

And I confess all too often it's true of me.

I love what I know about him.

I love him with an intellectual love,

but I want to love him with a passionate, fragrant love that engages my whole

being in all my senses. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, February 24th, 2016.

Nancy's continuing a series called How to Fall and Stay in Love with Jesus.

Well, over these next weeks, we're taking an in-depth look at the Song of Solomon.

The Song of Songs.

It's a love song. And in this story, as we get into the first part of it today, there are two main characters. Now, some commentators think there are three, and I'm not

going to be dogmatic about these different points. They may be right, but it seems to me, as I've

studied this passage, that the two main characters

are a bridegroom and a bride. This is a love relationship between a marriage, a husband and wife,

and the bridegroom is identified as King Solomon. The author of the book, we looked in the last session

at the first verse which says the song of songs, which is

Solomons. And later in the book, we see him addressed as King Solomon. The bride is a simple,

peasant girl who's referred to in chapter six as the Shulamite. That's the only place that word

is used in the scripture. We're not sure exactly what it means. It may be a variant spelling of Shulamite. That's the only place that word is used in the scripture. We're not sure exactly

what it means. It may be a variant spelling of Shunamite, which would suggest that she was from

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