Song of Solomon 2:9 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.

Voyeur, Peeping Tom, Paparazzi, all so negative, so sordid, sleazy, how could anyone associate our Lord with such behavior. In the opening verse we might tend to misunderstand because of the reference to the roe and young hart. Those are misnomers. Thinking of animal instincts can be misleading for the roots of roe is glory and honor and the hart is a ram with twisted horns, such as the one caught in the brush upon Mount Mariah, to replace Isaac on the alter.

Presence does not speak to intent. A voyeur seeks one kind of gratification, a Paparazzi another. To distinguish intent look to the line of verse that says “showing himself through the lattice”. He is not hiding, nor is He stalking. He appears to show Himself interested in you and your life. He wants to be part of it.

Does it make you uncomfortable to know that the God of the universe can look into every aspect of your life and that nothing is hidden from Him.

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

Manifest the counsels of the heart is interesting because it begs to ask; “Who are you keeping counsel with?” Are you in league with the devil? What? You don’t believe in the devil, Satan, that old serpent? Is he just an old wives’ tale to you? That is fine with him as he hides in the bushes of your life, watching every sordid act, being the ultimate voyeur, taking pleasure from watching mess up.

But you cannot believe in God without believing in Satan.