Song of Solomon 5:2 “I sleep but my heart is awake, it is the voice of my beloved that knocks.”

 

This is a very romantic phrase which carries very deep spiritual insight.   The poetry is so sweet, She hears her beloved’s voice in the knock of the door.  Come on guys, we all had that special knock on the door when we were in love.  When two people are in love even the knock on the door speaks volumes.  So too when God knocks on our hearts door, we know it is Him and our hearts do skip a beat.  Also, this verse even shows that when the lover is asleep her heart is still awake waiting for that knock.  The Talmud teaches that when we are asleep our body and soul are out for the count, but our spirit is very much awake, waiting to be joined with the Spirit of God as two lovers wait for that special moment in the night when they may be asleep but their hearts are awake waiting for that touch of their lover, waiting for their lover to knock on the door of their hearts.  I personally believe, no Scripture to back it up, that the intimate moments between a man and woman in bed are only enhanced when they are prepared for their knock of their Spiritual Lover, Jesus. For it is His love that can join a man and woman in that ultimate express of  love relationship.  Even while asleep their hearts will embrace. Oh, but if there is the slightest disharmony between the two, the lover will not hear that knock on her hearts door, she is too heartbroken to listen for the knock.  How many nights do we go to sleep with sin in our lives that create a disharmony with God.  Perhaps that is why we do not hear Him knocking at our heart’s door at night. .

 

Let’s view this from even a more spiritual angle, which can get pretty profound,   When you look up the word sleep in the back of Strong’s and your lexicon, it will tell you that the Hebrew word yishenah means sleep.  That is not profound.  But if you look it up in my book to be released June 21st Hebrew Word Study  Revealing the Heart of God you may found another level to this word yishenah.  When you trace this word to its Semitic root you discover it has the idea of peace and empowering not only physically but spiritually as well.

 

The ancient Jewish sages teach that God does not live in time, He lives in the past, present and future.  This being the case if his presence were to embody us completely, we would know the past, present and future.  The past and present we can handle, but could we handle the future?  Maybe we can’t even handle the past or the present. That would be a problem, so God can not completely be joined with us in our waking hours but in our sleep, ah but in our sleep, when the body and soul are clunked out He can come into that complete union with us for although we are not conscious, our heart is always awake and in our sleep our hearts can be joined with him in that complete unity.  Of course when that happens we share His knowledge and that is why we dream and why our dreams come out in symbols.   When we and God share our hearts during the sleeping hours our hearts may discourse over past, present or future events.   As some of these things would be too painful if directly revealed, they come out symbolically or He even causes us to forget it entirely. But it remains in our hearts to ponder. Ever wake up from a dream and you just feel wonderful, but for the life of you you cannot remember that dream.  Maybe that dream was so wonderful your poor spirit and body just can’t handle so God just leaves you with that pleasant feeling.

 

The numerical value of the word for sleep is 365 (Yod – 10, Shin 300, Nun  50, Hei 5).  There is a word in the Hebrew which means a connection to heaven, it too has a value of 365.  This falls in line with the sages teaching that during our time of sleep this makes a connection to heaven so that our relationship with God comes into a completeness. 

 

Our hearts are awake when we sleep. The word awake is ‘er. This is from the root ’vr which had the idea of being awake, alert, watchful and laid bare, naked.  When we are asleep our hearts are open to whatever or whoever wants to come knocking.  The word knock” in Hebrew is interesting.  It is spelled Daleth, Pei Qop.   This is a strange assortment of letters and has the idea of  standing at a doorway, knocking, speaking and calling.

 

Your heart is awake and getting a lot of callers at night.  It may be fear, doubt, worry, etc. or it may be Jesus. He comes a calling every night.  He wants to come in and show you a few things from the past, present and future.

 

One third of our lives are spent sleeping.  I often wondered why, if our time on earth is so short, God created us so that we end up wasting one third of it in an unconscious state.  Perhaps that one third part of our lives is the most important part in terms of our relationship with God, for it is that one third when He can have us completely.  But soft, our beloved comes a knocking.  Jesus, just like all your nightly visitors, comes knocking at our heart’s door every night.  It is up to us who we will open our door to. If we go to bed with unconfessed sin, or filling our minds and hearts with stories of zombies and demons, guess who may come a knocking and his dreams may end up being nightmares.

 

So, how do we open the door to our nightly visitors?  David seems to have figured that one out in Psalms 1:2:  “In His law doth he mediate day and night.”   How can you meditate on the Word of God at night if you are sleeping?  Apparently if you are meditating on the Word God as you go to sleep, your awakened heart will continue the meditation when Jesus comes a calling, and your heart will open its door to Him. Of course if  you are meditating on fear, lust etc. that is what your heart will open its door to at night.  Your heart will open to your beloved. If your beloved is hatred, anger, pornography violence, well your beloved will come a calling and may not have a box of candy and flowers.  Whatever you fill your heart with before you to sleeping will determine who your heart will open itself to when you are asleep.  If you meditate on God’s Word,  or even read a chapter from a devotional book, like my book Hebrew Word Study Revealing the Heart of God to be released on June 21st.  Did I tell you my book is going to be released on June 21st?   Anyways, if you go to sleep praising and worshipping Him, while you sleep, your heart will be awakened to the voice of your beloved who comes knocking and you may just find yourself waking up in the middle of the night praising God or for my charismatic friends, praying in tongues.  You may wake up praying for some pastor in the underground church in China or whoever or whatever God lays upon your heart to intercede.  We do not waste that one third of our lives, so don’t waste it.

 

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