but my beloved had left; he was gone.
My heart sank at his departure.
I looked for him but did not find him.
I called him but he did not answer. v.6
Read chapter 5
What a nightmare to see the one you love be missing. She starts this chapter off saying she sleeps but her heart is awake (v.2). This chapter seems like a nightmare this girl is having after having been with her husband in chapter four but now he is gone. Her heart sank that he'd gone and searches for him but can't find him. I've never been in love, but know so many people who've said their biggest worry or fear is that their spouse would ever leave them.
Often what happens in your nightmares are your greatest fears. Her greatest fear seems to be that her true love would come and leave because she was no ready to leave with him.
Our greatest nightmare would be if the Lord came for us and we were not ready for Him- no greater nightmare is there that God, our love, would come for us and we would not be ready. Just as Jesus tells us in some of His parables about being ready like the ten virgins in Matthew 25, five were wise and five were foolish not being ready for the bridegroom.
“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept." (vv.1-5)What is your nightmare or greatest fear that would come true? Are you ready if the Lord were to come today?
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