He Listens for Your Voice
I’ve been married 35years, and my heart still skips a beat when I hear my husband’s voice as he comes home from work. I love the sound of his voice! It’s the sound of my beloved coming closer to me, his presence nearing me. I love when he’s near me. And God feels the same way about us; He loves when we are near Him also.
We know that we love God’s presence with us, but do you know that He loves your presence with Him also? Song of Solomon is the beautiful love song of Jesus and the church but it also the love song of Jesus and you. In Song of Solomon 4:9 New American Standard Bible, we see His heart for us:
You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride;
You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes,
With a single strand of your necklace.
A glance is not a full gaze. A glance is the movement towards a full gaze at someone. As the head moves to glance at someone, the necklace moves slightly and even this slight movement excites Him. How much more our full gaze at His beautiful face must excite His heart, if even a glance in His direction makes His heart beat faster. As we focus on Him, looking full at His face, focusing only on Him, as in prayer, He enjoys our presence.
And He loves the sound of our voice! Song of Solomon 2:14 is Jesus, the Bridegroom speaking to the Bride and to you as He says:
O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,
In the secret place of the steep pathway,
Let me see your form,
Let me hear your voice;
For your voice is sweet,
And your form is lovely.
Sweet H6156 means pleasant and comes from a root word that means “close association, to be agreeable, take pleasure in, be sweet.” God takes pleasure in associating with you, in being close to you. He takes pleasure in hearing your voice. Ponder that for a minute, and let that thought bless you! The God of the universe, the Creator of all, takes pleasure in hearing your voice. Doesn’t that just make you want to talk to Him more? to pray to Him more? to praise Him more? It does me!
And He especially loves to hear your voice “in the secret place.” When no one is around; when it’s just you and Him. That is His favorite. And when you are in the “steep place”, He loves to hear your voice. Have you ever felt like you were in a “steep place”, when every step forward takes so much effort, and it feels like you are fighting an uphill battle? Yes, in the hardest times, in the trials, that’s when He especially loves to hear your voice.
Song of Solomon continues in 8:13 where the Bridegroom Jesus pleads with the Bride to let Him hear her voice again:
O you who sit in the gardens,
My companions are listening for your voice—
Let me hear it!”
Even His companions enjoy her voice. And Jesus says, “Let me hear it!” He calls for her to speak, because He loves the sound of her voice. Even so, He pleads with us to let Him hear our voice. As we pray and praise Him, we can just feel His pleasure as He hears our voices. God even leans in to hear our voice. Psalm 116:1-2 NASB:
I love the Lord, because He hears
My voice and my supplications.
Because He has inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.
Incline means “to stretch, bend, extend, incline, bend down.” Have you ever been in a group of people, and you are having trouble hearing the person next to you, so you lean in to hear them? This shows interest. Just as God “inclines” or leans in to listen to our voice, it shows that He wants to hear what we have to say. He wants to listen to us. And like a parent bends down to hear a child, He even bends down to hear us.
If God is so interested in what we say that He bends down and leans in to listen, shouldn’t we take time to talk to Him? In the very midst of our busyness, we can look to Him, talk to Him, and He is eager to listen to us. As always, I am preaching to myself here! So, mom’s, please don’t forget that
HE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR VOICE, SO TAKE TIME TO TALK TO HIM!
In His Love,
Suzanne
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