Song of Songs 2:8-9 The voice of my beloved! Now he comes, Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart. Now he stands behind our wall; He is looking through the windows, He is glancing through the lattice. (Recovery Version)
In order to empower and encourage His lover to rise up and get away from her down situation in her introspection of the self, Christ empowers her by showing her the power of His resurrection by the gazelle’s leaping upon the mountains and the young hart’s skipping upon the hills (Song of Songs 2:8-9). It is by this power of Christ’s resurrection that we, the lovers of Christ, determine to take the cross by denying our self (Matthew 16:24). Have we ever had such a determination? Often we forget what we determined to do before God. We need to be reminded. It is also by this power of Christ’s resurrection that we, the lovers of Christ, are enabled to be conformed to His death (Philippians 3:10), to be one with His cross as staying in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the precipice (Song of Songs 2:14). (Crystallization-Study of Song of Songs, ch. 6, by Witness Lee)
