Pierced Through by Love
"I've been pierced through by love, and I will not be turned aside." Song of Songs 5:8 (TPT) I was reading recently the Song of Songs. It is a beautiful picture of Christ's love for His bride- the Church- and the love of the bride to her beloved. The KJV and most other versions render this verse as: "If you find my beloved, That you tell him I am lovesick" or something similar to that. But in The Passion Translation it states: "I've been pierced through by love...." That phrase really caught my attention. So I started a word search. The word "love sick" or "sick of love" describes one who is deeply in love with someone, so much so that they are weak with desire, love sick. It comes from a root word from the Greek Old Testament-meaning wounded or pierced and to me- describes a love that is willing to be wounded- not in the sense of harm- but pierced through. It goes much deeper than the kind of love we describe in a marria...