Why do we think a little time, here or there, spent reading our Bible or praying over our meals constitutes intimacy? The picture of intimate relationship pictured in Song of Solomon is so intense and even a bit racy at time. But it pictures our relationship with Papa inside the marriage covenant.

“Then may your awakening breath blow upon my life until I am fully yours. Breathe upon me with your Spirit wind. Stir up the sweet spice of your life within me. Spare nothing as you make me your fruitful garden. Hold nothing back until I release your fragrance. Come walk with me as you walked with Adam in your paradise garden. Come taste the fruits of your life in me. I have come to you, my darling bride, for you are my paradise garden! Come walk with me until I am fully yours. Come taste the fruits of your life in me.”
‭‭Song of Songs‬ ‭4:16‬ ‭TPT‬‬
https://www.bible.com/1849/sng.4.16.tpt

We ARE the apple of His eye, the Bride to His Bridegroom.  Song of Songs has so many passages that show our enraptured passion for Him in the words of the Shulamite.  But what is truly outrageous are the passages from the Bridegroom expressing His undying desire for the Bride, in other words, us!  He wants to be intimate with us even more than we want to be with Him.  I know, that doesn’t really surprise me, if I look at my life, I know how luke-warm I’ve been over the years.   Keeping our passion alive is impossible under our own power but when the Holy Spirit awakens desire for Him it is impossible to resist His wooing…