What
does it mean to kiss God and to be kissed BY God?
God's love is natural and spiritual and the
understanding/revelation of God as the Bridegroom
God (Matt 22:2)must be revealed to the inner man.
This is a kiss that is so much deeper than the natural
revelation. It transcends our comprehension and
pales in comparison to our finite understanding
of a kiss.
I
have a confession to make…I’m hopeless romantic!
When I was in high school, I listened to love songs
instead of the pop music of the day. My favorite
movie was (and still is) Sleeping Beauty. I could
devour a romance novel in one day. I knew that
was all just make-believe yet there was something
in my heart that continued to long for it. The
Lord has since revealed to me that He too is a hopeless
romantic. After all He wrote the love song of all
songs— the Song of Solomon. He is my Knight is
shining armor, my Savior awakening me out of my
slumber, out of my sin with the kiss of ‘True love’.
He is the greatest romance novel ever written—the
Word of God, complete with a wedding celebration
at the end of the book. (Rev. 19:7) In Him, the
longings we have for perfect love can be
fulfilled.
For the last
3,000 years, rabbis have referred to “the kisses
of His mouth” as the “Kiss of the Torah.” The bible
says that Yeshua/Jesus is the Torah/Word made flesh
(John 1:1,14) and that “Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from
the mouth of God.” (Matt. 4:4, Deut 8:3) Every
word is my bread, the very substance that I need.
Every word is my life. Every word is a kiss.
O’
let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth!
The Hebrew
word for Kiss means:
To put together,
to kiss. To touch gently, to handle. To be equipped
with equipment or weapons. Also found in the
root of the word Kiss is: to kindle, to burn. To
be kindled, to make a fire. (Strong’s #5400)
Notice what
is taking place within the kiss. It’s not just
a kiss in the way we would understand a kiss. There
is an equipping, an arming, and an igniting taking
place. God’s kiss equips us. God’s kiss ignites
us. Jeremiah said the word of God was in his heart
like a burning fire. (Jer. 20:9) He had been equipped
for his calling in life. The word of God was burning
in his heart and he could not contain it any longer.
God wants
us to desire His kisses and He longs for us to return
the kiss to Him. His kiss is to burn within the
heart of the worshipper causing/igniting a response.
Can we respond to God's kiss with a spiritualkiss
in return? The kiss of worship, the kiss of reverence,
the kiss of AWE, the kiss of a child, the kiss of
a sibling, the kiss of a servant, the kiss of a
bride.
Have you
ever kissed someone and they didn’t kiss you in
return? It’s a dreadful experience, you can come
away feeling so vulnerable and exposed because you
have opened your heart to this person and they did
not respond. But how can we kiss God?
The word
for Worship in Greek means:
"to
Kiss", to prostrate oneself,
bow down, do obeisance, show reverence, do homage,
worship, adore, as a dog licking the hand of its
master. (Strong’s # 4352)
In Luke 7:38,
we see Mary weeping at the feet of Jesus. With
her tears she washes His feet and dries them with
her hair. She then kisses his feet
and anoints them with the ointment. Mary’s kissing
the feet of Jesus was an act of worship flowing
out of a heart ignited by the kiss of God.
True worshippers
will worship (kiss) the Father in spirit and truth,
for the Father is seeking such to worship (kiss)
Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must
worship (kiss) Him in Spirit and Truth. (John 4:23-4) We are created for
the Kiss; to be ignited with passion and equipped
for ministry. And we are created to kiss;
to worship God, lavishing our love upon the Magnificent
One who is all worthy. God is eagerly seeking those
who, in Spirit and Truth, will ask of Him; “kiss
me with the kisses of Your mouth”. May He find
what He is looking for in us.
