Bible in a Year - Women’s Thematic Reading Plan | Day 64

Day 64 of the Women’s Bible Plan: Read Song of Solomon Chapter 2 and reflect on the Beloved and the Lover, whose relationship is marked by affection, delight, longing, and patient waiting. Through this chapter, this devotional helps women consider the beauty of love that is cherished, protected, respected, and allowed to grow in its proper season. 

🌸  Dear Sister, welcome to Day 64 of our reading journey. 

Love is a beautiful gift created by God. Yet love is also easily distorted by selfish desire, anxiety, possession, comparison, and insecurity. In today’s world, love is often reduced to intense feelings, romantic images, or the immediate satisfaction of personal longing. But Song of Solomon Chapter 2 gives us a richer picture. Beautiful love is not only passion and attraction; it also includes cherishing, waiting, honoring, self-control, and mutual affirmation.

In this chapter, the beloved hears the voice of her lover and sees him coming over the mountains and hills. He calls her to rise up and come away with him. They speak words of delight and admiration to one another, while the beloved also gives this tender warning: “stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.”

This is not a cold moral lesson. It is a living picture filled with springtime, flowers, songbirds, fragrance, and awakening life. God does not deny the beauty of love. Instead, this chapter helps us see that when love is guarded in the right time, right relationship, and right posture of mutual honor, it reflects the beauty of God’s design.

A Minute of Grace

Song of Solomon Chapter 2 continues the intimate and poetic dialogue between the beloved and her lover. The beloved describes herself as “the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys,” and the lover also speaks of her as “the lily among thorns.” Their words are filled with mutual admiration and affirmation. This reminds us that healthy love does not belittle, control, or consume. It sees beauty in the other person and responds with honor and delight.

This chapter also gives us one of the most beautiful scenes in the Song. The lover is like a roe or a young hart, coming over the mountains and leaping upon the hills. He stands behind the wall, looks through the windows, and calls to the beloved: “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.” Spring has come. Flowers appear on the earth. The time of singing has arrived. The voice of the turtle is heard in the land, and the vines give a good smell. These images show us that the call of love is not merely emotional impulse; it is like life awakening into a new season.

Yet Song of Solomon Chapter 2 is not only about romance. It is also about waiting and protection. The beloved charges the daughters of Jerusalem: “stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.” This reminds us that love, though beautiful, must not be rushed, forced, manipulated, or awakened before its proper time. Precious love requires time, maturity, boundaries, and the season God allows.

From the perspective of “Women in the Bible,” the beloved’s voice is especially valuable. She is not a woman without feeling, desire, or expression. She admires, responds, longs, and also warns others not to cross love’s boundaries. She shows us that a godly woman in love is not passive or lost in another person. She can love and be loved with sincerity, clarity, dignity, and wisdom.

Today’s theme, “The Beloved and the Lover in Song of Solomon,” invites us to reflect on how we understand love. Do we grasp it with anxiety, measure it by comparison, or push it forward by desire? Or are we willing to learn before God how to cherish, wait, respect, and protect love? Whether you are single, dating, married, waiting, or healing from relational wounds, Song of Solomon Chapter 2 invites us to bring the beauty of love back under God’s wisdom and design.

Whispers for the Heart

1 In Song of Solomon Chapter 2, the beloved and the lover admire and affirm one another. In close relationships, do you easily notice problems, weaknesses, and disappointments while forgetting to cherish what is still worthy of gratitude? Is God inviting you to build relationships with words of respect, blessing, and appreciation?

2 The beloved says, “stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.” How do you understand waiting and boundaries in love? In romance, marriage, physical intimacy, emotions, or relational expectations, are you willing to let God teach you not to rush, not to control, and not to be led by immature desire?

3 The lover calls the beloved, “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away,” like spring arriving and life awakening. Is God also inviting you in a relationship or life season to rise from fear, isolation, wounds, or self-protection? Are you willing to let God restore your hope for love and teach you to love in a healthier way?

As you read Song of Solomon Chapter 2 today, do not see it only as a love poem. Let it also remind you that the beauty of love must be cherished, the fire of love must be guarded, and the season of love must be waited for in God’s wisdom.

Take a quiet breath before you begin. Bring your thoughts about love, marriage, singleness, intimacy, past wounds, and future hopes before the Lord, and let His Word meet you there.

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Song of Solomon Chapter 2 (KJV) 

2 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

💡 Closing Thought · Let Love Bloom in Its Proper Season 

After reading Song of Solomon Chapter 2, we see that love is not a feeling to be consumed casually, nor a relationship to be forced into maturity by anxiety. The beloved and the lover admire, call to, and cherish one another. Yet the beloved also reminds us not to stir up or awaken love before its proper time. Beautiful love must be cherished and guarded. It needs affection, but also waiting; expression, but also boundaries.

As we close this page and return to real life, perhaps you are learning to wait in singleness, discern in dating, cherish again in marriage, or heal slowly after relational wounds. Remember this: God does not take away the beauty of love. He protects its holiness, so that love may bloom in the right time, the right relationship, and the right foundation.

May today’s Scripture remind you not to rush love out of anxiety, not to trade intimacy for compromise, and not to measure your worth by another person’s choice. May God teach you to cherish in love, rest in waiting, remain clear-minded in relationships, and see life blossom beautifully in His time.

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