SOS 1:15 DOVES EYES

Chapter 1:15

“How beautiful you are my darling, how beautiful you are! You have dove’s eyes!”

The King is speaking to the beauty of loyalty and dedication which he has created within us. (even his own loyalty and dedication placed within us) Doves speak of this in several ways. They stick to one mating partner for life, speaking of the bride’s faithfulness to the Bridegroom. They also have no peripheral vision but only focus on one spot at a time, which speaks of a “single eye,” which is focused on him, flooding the entire body with light. To say that she has dove’s eyes is to say that her focus remains on him, she is not drawn away by other spiritual lovers. (idols of the heart)

This does not only apply to those who have a perfect history, or even a perfect present, but this is the very nature of God which he has put within us and is drawing to the surface. Part of drawing that faithfulness and focus to the surface is letting us know that we already have it. We already have his very nature inside of us waiting to come out and take over our lives more and more. Believing it is a big step.

The first of the ten commandments was “you shall have no other gods before me,” basically, “no idolatry.”  Idolatry is spoken of in the old testament and in the new testament as marital unfaithfulness to the Lord. Paul shows us in Colossians 3:5 that the issue is even more common, he writes, “…and covetousness which is idolatry.” Covetousness is basically desire (for anything) which has become a higher practical priority than your relationship with God.

We truly have eyes that desire him above all things, which give place to no idols, even idols of the heart. He calls that beautiful.

Jesus speaks of the “single” eye, or healthy/clear eye in some translations, in Matthew 6:22-23 “The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear/single, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!”

Notice that Jesus is not talking about your eyes, (physical eyes) but your eye. People with eye diseases aren’t spiritually bad, cyclopses aren’t more spiritual. (single eye) No this is speaking of the vision of your heart. It is about where you put your focus.

It is like Hebrews 13; “Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.” The “doves’ eyes” of singleness of focus, when put into practice, cause our entire being to be flooded with light. It is about keeping Jesus, the Bridegroom, central in our focus in all things. When our heart is focused on him, his light floods us as a grace, the rest of our being lines up with the focused purpose of our heart, empowered by this grace, and faithfulness to him is the result in our lives. Basically, this is the same thing spoken of earlier under “Spiritual Union, Spiritual Walk,” only a little different of an angle. It is the “101” of walking in the Spirit. This is already inside us, but there is a walk of learning to let it out into our practice, and there is a discipline to keep it there.