Delight Yourself in the Lord Devotionals

Wild For You - Psalm 45

King Solomon was known for his wisdom, his wealth, and his writings. He became ruler in approximately 967 B.C. and his kingdom extended from the Euphrates River in the north to Egypt in the south. He built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Almost all knowledge of him is derived from the biblical books of 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles.

Solomon was the son of King David and Bathsheba. Solomon inherited a considerable empire from his father. In Gibeon, the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream and told Solomon to ask Him for what He would give him. Solomon says, “Give Your servant an understanding mind and a hearing heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and bad. For who is able to judge and rule this Your great people?” (1 Kings 3:9)

The Lord was pleased with Solomon’s request since he did not ask for wealth or long life and so God granted him all of these: wisdom, wealth, and long life, so long as Solomon followed God in all his ways.

It is said that Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes and Proverbs but it is unsure if he wrote Song of Songs or if someone wrote it for a wedding. Most lean toward Solomon being the writer and some have said that it was written when he was still young and subject to the wiles of youth, that Proverbs was written when he was in middling years, and that Ecclesiastes was written when he was an old man, bitter and distraught.

1 Kings 4:32 He [Solomon] also originated 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. (AMPLIFIED)

King Solomon wrote 1,005 songs and yet Song of Songs (Solomon) is called the song of songs, the greatest of all the wisest king ever to live wrote. That is saying a great deal.

The focus of Song of Solomon is the intense desire and love between the Shulamite and the Beloved. Its strongest focus for believers today is the intimacy Jesus Christ wants with His bride (the church) and with each individual believer. The deep emotions expressed in Song of Solomon often makes people uncomfortable and so it is often skipped over.

The wonder of God’s love must be realized in order for Song of Solomon to be opened up to you in a clear way. One must realize the depth of His love for them, the true depth, in order for one to completely trust Him and let go of one’s fears. He is nothing like us.

When Jesus loves you, He loves you. His love is complete. He can’t love you any more than He does right now, though as we grow to know Him, we are fully capable of falling deeper and deeper in love with Him every day…if we let Him in. One must have a revelation of His love in order to fully grasp its depth.

Words cannot express the wonder of His love to one that hasn’t had a revelation, a personal touch or experience. In order to be known, His love must be experienced, imparted straight to one’s heart from God. Read Hosea. This is a picture of God’s love for the lost, for the ones that turned away, for He always pursues. Always seeks.

The King is wild for you! A heart needs to be stirred toward Jesus and God and the owner of the heart is the one that stirs it. God and Jesus stirs it as well but as you declare your love, your heart is stirred. Verbally declare your love for God. Jesus came to make us godly and God is love. His word and a love relationship with Him makes your heart strong.

Seek Him in genuine love and discover the depth of His love for you. Only then will the harvest laid out in Song of Solomon be yours for the reaping. And it is a very bountiful harvest of love, peace, strength, worth and joy.

Nestled in Psalm 45, The Message Translation, is this wonderful expression: Be here—the king is wild for you.

Read all of Psalm 45, The Message Translation, here: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+45&version=MSG