SA 95:11{Can this be? What beauty have we that the King can desire? For the more we have seen of His beauty, the more we have seen of our own ugliness. What, then, can He see? "My comeliness which I had put upon thee." "The beauty of the Lord our God be upon us." For "He will beautify the meek with salvation." And so the desire of the King is set upon us. Perhaps it is upon the emphatic "so," as pointing to the context, that the intensity of the emphatic "greatly" hinges. It is when the bride forgets her own people and her father's house—that is, when her life and love are altogether given to her Royal Bridegroom—that He shall greatly desire her beauty. When His glorious beauty has so filled our eyes, and His incomprehensible love has so filled our hearts, that He is first, and most, and dearest of all—when we can say not merely, "The desire of our souls is to Thy name," but "There is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee"—when thus we are, to the very depth of our being, really and entirely our Beloved's, then we may add, in solemn, wondering gladness, "And His desire is toward me.”
O love surpassing thought
So bright, so grand, so clear, so true, so glorious;
Love infinite, love tender, love unsought,
Love changeless, love rejoicing, love victorious!
And this great love for us in boundless store;
Christ's everlasting love! What wouldst thou more?