Song of Solomon
Hello! It has been a busy month. The internship continues to go well. We all are getting closer to each other and closer to the Lord. I want to continue the Song of Solomon study. I know it has been a while since wrote. Today, I want to progress in our study. The verses that I will talk about are from chapter 1 again, verses 8 through the end of the chapter. You will probably need some review. Just simply go back to the latest Song of Solomon posting.
Verse 8–”If you yourself do not know, most beautiful among women, Go forth on the trail of the flock and pasture your young goats by the tents of the shepherds” This is a really important verse. The Lord is speaking to her heart before he speaks to her head when he says “most beautiful among women”. Then he gives her a command to follow.
Verse 9–”To me, my darling you are like My mare among the chariots of Pharoah.” She is used for his pleasure and enjoyment. In those days the mare was saved only for pleasure riding. She is like that to him. He loves her. She is his favorite.
Verse10, 11–”Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of beads. We will make for you ornaments of gold with beads of silver.” This verse continues to uplift her and declare her beauty. The king wants to adorn her.
Verse 12–”While the king was at his table, My perfume gave forth fragrance. ” 2 Corinth. 2:14 says that we are the fragrance of Christ. She is getting a revelation of the cross and the fragrance of suffering.
Verse 13, 14–”My beloved is to me a pouch of myrrh which lies all night between my breasts. My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi.” She is beginning to gaze at the sufferings of Christ. Myrrh is a burial fragrance. She continues to say “My beloved is to me & He is to me.” I t is all about her which is the first revelation. Maturity will come.
Verse 15–”How beautiful you are, my darling, How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves.” He affirms her beauty and tells her that her eyes are like doves. This means she has single vision like a dove. Doves have one mate for life, and if that mate dies, they do not get a different one. Doves have eyes that can only look straight ahead. He sees in her the depth of her commitment even though she is still immature in her love for him. God sees not as man sees. (1 Samuel 16:7) Man looks on the outward, but God looks on the heart. He sees the blood of Christ and our willing spirit. God calls into being what does not yet exist. (Romans 4:17) He calls us these things to empower us to have undivided attention.
Verse 16–How handsome you are my beloved, and so pleasant! Indeed, our couch is luxuriant!” She is beginning to find her rest in the redemption of the cross.
Verse 17–The beams of our houses are cedars, our rafter cypresses.” She is saying that the foundations that they rest in are strong. They still have separate houses because the wedding has not yet taken place.
Hope you are all blessed. Talk you later.
Gazing at Jesus
Hey guys, sorry I have not written in while. Hope you are all doing well and find yourself hungry for your Creator and Savior.
So a little update on my life would be that the Lord continues to teach me things every single day, and He doesn’t miss a second. I’ve been learning a lot about the Lord’s love. I know that seems like it would be Christianity 101, but there is so much that I thought I knew but don’t and so much I thought I didn’t need to know, and I do. If that makes any sense….I don’t know, but I try and explain.
I found myself this past week or two, or actually off and on for a while, overwhelmed with who I am and who I really want to be. I wanted to love Jesus with everything, and so much of the time, I felt like I didn’t. I kept looking at all of my downfalls and everything that kept me from being the women I desired to be and who God desired me to be. Then I realized that I was forgetting something. I was so busy looking at myself and all of my problems that the very act of doing that was the very thing that was keeping me from walking in victory. My heart was becoming detached from Jesus for this reason: I was not gazing at Him. I was just looking at my darkness and not looking at His beauty.
All my emotions, Jesus wants them the way they are. He doesn’t want them to be gone; He wants them to be channeled differently. All my weaknesses are ok as long as I don’t gaze at them. If I look at myself, I smother my energy and love for Him and focus it all on myself. Jesus can handle my emotions for Him, my love for Him, my passion for Him. He desires my love…so how can I deny Him it?
I am reminded of this song that Misty Edwards sings. “I have one life to live, and all I have to give to you is love.” So my prayer has been; “I want to fall deeper in love with you, Jesus.” My other prayer is that I would stop looking at myself and my woundedness and look at the majesty and beauty of God!
Song of Solomon
How is everyone doing? I am working for godtube right now and writing this blog. Hope all of you are doing amazing.
So here is the beginning of Song of Solomon. I am doing the first 7 verses of the first chapter today. I know that whoever you are, you will find that this book will change your life. It is important to personalize this book so that you can obtain the best understanding and revelation.
Starting in the second verse. “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.” The women or (bride of Christ) is longing for more of His word. She is saying, kiss me with the kisses of you word. She knows that her beloved’s love is better than the thing that makes her the most happy.
Verse 3: “your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.” Later on in the book, she will talk about the specific fragrances that he has. Some of these talk of suffering and humility. He pours out his oil. Oil also speaks of intimacy like the five virgins with oil in their lamps.
Verse 4: “Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers.” She is talking to him in an intimate way. She is immature still in her relationship with him. It is all about her, right now because she is discovering him. He is ok with thisbecause she has to go through this process of resting in his love for her. So he brings her into his presence/chambers.
Last part of Verse 4: “We exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you” This is just other observers or friends of the bride commenting on the love of her beloved.
Verse 5: “I am dark but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.” She is dark from sin, but God sees her through His blood, so she is called lovely. Her success is not determined by what she does or doesn’t do for the kingdom. It is defined by her loving Jesus and in him loving her. She is calling herself what God calls her. She is loved and a lover; therefore she is successful. The tents of Kedar were dark curtains made of skins. Solomon’s curtains were white like for a bedroom. She says dark but lovely and as an alliteration, she says I am like Kedar and like Solomon’s curtains. She points out the darkness first–because without darkness, there is no light.
Verse 6: “Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me.” She is speaking her identity out when she says she is dark but lovely, but she is still under that weight of darkness. She was still comparing herself with others. The sun represents the sinful world she is living in. She is in essence saying, “don’t look at me because I still don’t feel worth it.”
Last part of verse 6: “My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me keepers of the vineyards, but my own vineyards I have not kept.” The mother’s sons symbolize the church or the people she saw everyday who knew the Lord but did not have a close relationship with him. She was being pulled every direction for the sake of “ministry”. She was being made to do so much in the church that she had neglected her own intimacy with the Lord. They were also angry because she was passionate but immature.
Verse 7: “Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon.” This is her desperate cry for his romance (love). She wants to be close to the shepherd that she loves so much. Noon is the heat of the day. She wanted to know where the sheep were resting and being fed by the shepherd (Jesus).
Last part of verse 7: “for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?” She does not want to have this veil over her anymore. She wants to be vulnerable before the one who died for her. She cannot settle for being near the companions of the Lord; she wants to be a companion of the Lord so she can commune with him and rest.
God bless
