"There's my lover! Do you see him coming?"

“Look! Listen! There’s my lover! Do you see him coming? Vaulting the mountains, leaping the hills.” (Song of Solomon 2:8, The Message) 

While the immediate context of this is the relationship between a girl and the man she loves, we understand the message of the Song of Solomon as a type of the relationship between God and Israel, and by extension between Christ and the Church.  So that when we come across passages like this one, we see it as an expression of the desire that Israel had for God/the Church has for Christ.  What higher relationship on earth could one imagine to illustrate the beauty and connection between God and his people than the relationship between a man and woman who love each other?  There is nothing that Solomon can grasp which illuminates God's love so well as a human love relationship.

The church is ever looking and ever waiting for her husband to come and bring his eternal presence and by doing so complete the picture of the Church as Christ's bride.  As individuals we study and embrace the beauty of Christ now as an anticipation of the beauty that will be present when Christ returns.  Truly the church says: "Look!  Listen!  There's my lover!  Do you see him coming?"