"I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."
ONly 11 verses in this chapter. And as the first so is the second verse filled with instruction and heartache for us as Christians. We should identify with this dilema and pray that it not be any more a part of our testimony.
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets - word study, will; word study, go; the personal action is taking to do something about the situation; In the first verse we learned the problem, a separation between the Christian and our Lord. The overall emphasis that so many take is between Christ and the church in this man and woman relationship. But let us go even more personal between Christ and us. 'I will rise now' is the mandate. Something has provoked action to get up and 'to go'. The issue found in the first verse is the answer to it. Christ is not here; why? How did I lose Him? How did forget about Him? Something is not right between us for me to lose thought, heart and pursuit of Him that I love. And as is so often taught, when you lose something, you must seek for it. If you don't seek for it, then you will never find it.
The action of rising and going is to look and to search.
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