Dove Eyes

Dove Eyes

How beautiful you are, my darling, How beautiful you are!
Your eyes are like doves behind your veil;

His eyes are like doves beside streams of water,
Bathed in milk, and reposed in their setting.

The bride and the bridegroom have the eyes of a dove. When a dove fixes its gaze upon its mate, it is not distracted by any activities around it. It possesses a singleness of eye for its mate alone.

The bride has eyes for Christ alone. The bride is sensitive to the Lord's presence, and obedient to His desire and purpose. This comes from continually beholding, seeking the bridegroom. David knew this singleness of mind, this intenese desire to behold the Lord.

One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple. -Ps 27:4

The Lord's favor rests upon the bride, upon the one who seeks to behold His beauty. The bride can be easily led by Him, for she is close enough to see which way His eye is looking.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. -Ps 32:8

This continued beholding of the bridegroom also results in the stripping away of the veil, revealing the Lord's glory. The bride is transformed in Christ's likeness with ever-increasing glory. The more the bride is transformed, the more she reflects the eyes of her lover, the eyes of the dove.

But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is stripped off and taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

The gaze of the bride challenges anyone who sees it to also turn to the Lord, to behold Him and receive His Spirit.

What can be seen in the eyes of the dove? The Lord's beauty and favor.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. {There is freedom!}

The eyes of the dove are beautiful, single and full of light!

The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear{single. true}, your whole body will be full of light -Mt 6:22.

How beautiful you are, My darling, How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil ... You have stolen My heart, My sister, My bride; you have stolen{captured} My heart with one glance of your eyes ... -Song 4:1, 9

In My Eyes, My Dove
Karen Holland

In My eyes, My Dove, My fair one

    You are beautiful, the most beautiful of jewels.     -

    You have the eyes of a dove.     -

    Your voice is sweet and your face so lovely.     -

    Your mouth, like the best of wines.     -

In My eyes,

    You are dearly loved.     -

    You are the 'apple of My eye' hidden beneath My wing.     -

    You are precious and honored in My sight.     -

    You are My beloved.

My eyes are always upon you.     -

I see every precious thing; I see to the ends of the earth.     -

Nothing can hide you from My all-seeing eye.     -

My eyes continually look to strengthen the fully committed heart of My dove.     -

My eyes never tire, never sleep.     -

In My eyes, My Dove, My fair one

    You are dearly loved, the apple of My eye, precious in My sight.

    Held in My gaze, both now and forevermore.     -

    You are My beloved.

    You are Mine.

... I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. -Isa 43:1

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In My Eyes
Karen Holland … 7-4-2008
In My eyes, in My eyes,
You are so precious in My sight
In My eyes, in My eyes,
So much love for My Bride.
In My eyes, in My eyes,
You are so precious in My sight
Held in My gaze, a beautiful jewel
The apple of My eye
Under My wing, you’ll abide
So precious in My sight, you are held
You are held
In My eyes.

Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD listened and heard them;
So a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and who meditate on His name.
“ They shall be Mine,” says the LORD of hosts, “ On the day that I make them My jewels{treasured possesion}.
And I will spare them As a man spares his own son who serves him.” -Mal 3:16-17
Keep me as the *apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings. -Ps 17:8

From: Netbible Ps 17:8
*apple – ‘iyshown [0380]
Definition: 1) pupil of the eye
2) middle of the night (that is the deepest blackness) diminutive from 376; the little man of the eye; the pupil or ball; hence, the middle (of night):-apple (of the eye), black, obscure.
Literally the phrase ‘the apple of the eye’, is “the little man or daughter or the black{pupil} of the eye.” It is that part of the eye which reflects what you are looking at; what you are focused on. The thing that is reflected in the pupil of your eye most frequently is what is most important and precious to you.

In My eyes, My Dove, My fair one
You are beautiful, the most beautiful of jewels.	-
You have the eyes of a dove.	-
Your voice is sweet and your face so lovely.	-
Your mouth, like the best of wines.	-

In My eyes,
You are dearly loved.	-
You are the 'apple of My eye' hidden beneath My wing.	-
You are precious and honored in My sight.	-
You are My beloved.

My eyes are always upon you.	-
I see every precious thing; I see to the ends of the earth.	-
Nothing can hide you from My all-seeing eye.	-
My eyes continually look to strengthen the fully committed heart of My dove.	-
My eyes never tire, never sleep.	-

In My eyes, My Dove, My fair one
You are dearly loved, the apple of My eye, precious in My sight.
Held in My gaze, both now and forevermore.	-
You are My beloved.
You are Mine.