“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth” (Song of Sol 1:2).
While this “song of songs” is taken at many levels, it can certainly be applied to the world’s greatest Lover. Sadly He said to Simon, “You gave Me no kiss” (Lk 7:45), in contrast to the woman who, He said, “has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in.” Is a kiss worthy compensation for His life laid down? A common word for worship is proskuneo, “to kiss towards.”
Richard Selzer writes: “I stand by the bed where a young woman lies…[T]o remove the tumor in her cheek, I had to cut a little nerve. Her young husband is in the room.…The young woman speaks, ‘Will my mouth always be like this?’ she asks. ‘Yes,’ I say, ‘it will…’ She nods and is silent. But the young man smiles. ‘I like it,’ he says. ‘It’s kind of cute.’…he bends to kiss her crooked mouth and…twists his own lips to accommodate to hers, to show her that their kiss still works.” Oh how the Son “adjusted” to give us the kiss of grace!