Song of Songs 5:1
I came to my garden, my sister, my bride,
I gathered my myrrh with my spice,
I ate my honeycomb with my honey,
I drank my wine with my milk.
Eat, friends, drink,
and be drunk with love!
Subject: Love and Intimacy
Because of the increase in technology and its application to science and health, there as been some great studies recently on the human brain activity. A recent study showed, as they watched the activity of the brain, that the same areas of increased activity in the brain were the same when the subject was focused on God, sex and/or gambling (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/11/29/brain-looks-like-god-spiritual-experience-triggers-areas-sex/). That is quite remarkable, as it shows that what Paul was saying in Romans 6 is physically true:
Romans 6:12-14
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Our "members" are tools of the body that can be submitted to God or to sex or to gambling. In the Song of Solomon we might see the same thing. In the above passage we see the young man (Solomon) dreaming of intimacy with his soon-to-be bride. He is "drunk" on love. That same euphoric feeling he gets in worship he is getting in the feelings of intimacy. God created us to enjoy intimacy. When we use it for His glory it sparks the type of feelings as above. Our physical bodies are "members" we can submit to worship God, through sexual pleasure, or worship self, through sexual pleasure. They are the same, just different predisposition. One is to worship the Creator of sex and the other is to worship the creation: Sex! Note what Paul says about worshiping the creation rather than the Creator:
Romans 1:24-25
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Song of Solomon is a complete lesson to us on how to worship the Creator in intimacy vs. the creation of intimacy.
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