Song of Solomon
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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
